Joh 5:25 | JFB | STEP | 25-29. The hour cometh —in its whole fulness, at Pentecost. and now is —in its beginnings. the dead —the spiritually dead, as is clear from . Here He rises from the calmer phrase "hearing his word " ( ), to the grander expression, "hearing the voice of the Son of God, " to signify that as it finds men in a dead condition, so it carries with it a resurrection-power. shall live

John 5:25

25-29. The hour cometh—in its whole fulness, at Pentecost.

and now is—in its beginnings.

the dead—the spiritually dead, as is clear from Joh 5:28. Here He rises from the calmer phrase "hearing his word" (Joh 5:24), to the grander expression, "hearing the voice of the Son of God," to signify that as it finds men in a dead condition, so it carries with it a resurrection-power.

shall live—in the sense of Joh 5:24.