John 5:21
Good News Translation
Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, in the same way the Son gives life to those he wants to.

New Revised Standard Version
Indeed, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

Contemporary English Version
Just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so the Son gives life to anyone he wants to.

New American Bible
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For as the Father raiseth up the dead and giveth life: so the Son also giveth life to whom he will.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For as the Father raiseth up the dead and giveth life: so the Son also giveth life to whom he will.

as.

Deuteronomy 32:39 See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

1 Kings 17:21 And he stretched, and measured himself upon the child three times, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God, let the soul of this child, I beseech thee, return into his body.

2 Kings 4:32-35 Eliseus, therefore, went into the house, and behold the child lay dead on his bed: . . .

2 Kings 5:7 And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he rent his garments, and said: Am I God, to be able to kill and give life, that this man hath sent to me to heal a man of his leprosy? mark, and see how he seeketh occasions against me.

Acts 26:8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible that God should raise the dead?

Romans 4:17-19 (As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations), before God, whom he believed: who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things that are not, as those that are. . . .

even.

John 11:25,43,44 Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live: . . .

John 17:2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

Luke 7:14,15 And he came near and touched the bier. And they that carried it stood still. And he said: Young man, I say to thee, arise. . . .

Luke 8:54,55 But he taking her by the hand, cried out, saying: Maid, arise. . . .

Context
The Father and the Son
20For the Father loveth the Son and sheweth him all things which himself doth: and greater works than these will he shew him, that you may wonder. 21For as the Father raiseth up the dead and giveth life: so the Son also giveth life to whom he will. 22For neither does the Father judge any man: but hath given all judgment to the Son.…
Cross References
John 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

John 11:25
Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live:

Romans 4:17
(As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations), before God, whom he believed: who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things that are not, as those that are.

Romans 8:11
And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you; he that raised up Jesus Christ, from the dead shall quicken also your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

1 Corinthians 15:45
The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.

John 5:20
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