² ‘There was a judge in a certain town who didn’t fear God^(A) or respect people.

⁶ Then the Lord said, ‘Listen to what the unjust judge says.

²² The Father,^(A) in fact, judges no one but has given all judgement to the Son, ²³ so that all people may honour the Son just as they honour the Father.^(B) Anyone who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.^(C)

Life and Judgement

²⁴ ‘Truly I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life^(D) and will not come under judgement but has passed from death to life.

²⁵ ‘Truly I tell you, an hour is coming, and is now here,^(E) when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.^{(F) 26} For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted to the Son^(G) to have life in himself. ²⁷ And he has granted him the right to pass judgement,^(H) because he is the Son of Man.^{(I) 28} Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear his voice ²⁹ and come out – those who have done good things, to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked things, to the resurrection of condemnation.

³⁰ ‘I can do nothing on my own. I judge only as I hear, and my judgement^(J) is just,^(K) because I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.^(L)

⁴² He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be the judge of the living and the dead.^(A)

²³ to the assembly of the firstborn whose names have been written^[a] in heaven, to a Judge, who is God of all, to the spirits of righteous people made perfect,^(A)