The message that Jesus brought to first century Judaism was radical, and John really makes a point of bringing out the radical message of Jesus.
I love the words of Jesus in John 5:25-29 about the dead coming to life. Jesus says that the dead will hear his voice and come to life (25).
We've all been to a funeral and seen a dead person. Dead people don't hear anything. They're dead. People don't have life in themselves. Life is given to us and then we eventually lose it and we die.
God is different. God has life in himself (26). No one ever gave God life. He has just always existed, and he will never die. That's what it means to be God. In fact, he gives life to people.
Evidently the people were absolutely stunned by this because Jesus had to tell them not to marvel at his teaching about life (28), and then he reinforced the teaching that the time is coming when the dead will hear his voice.
If by his voice God spoke creation into existence, why is it so hard to believe that by his voice he will speak life into dead people? I believe it.
Jesus didn't come to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people alive.
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