Joh 5:27-28 | RWP | e4.org | Because he is the Son of man ( οτ υιος ανθρωπου εστιν ). Rather, "because he is a son of man" (note absence of articles and so not as the Messiah), because the judge of men must partake of human nature himself (Westcott). Bernard insists that John is here giving his own reflections rather than the words of Jesus and uses υιος ανθρωπου in the same sense as ο υιος του ανθρωπου (always in the Gospels used by Jesus of himself). But that in my opinion is a wrong view since we have here ostensibly certainly the words of Jesus himself. So in ; υιον ανθρωπου means "a son of man."

‏ John 5:27-28

Because he is the Son of man ( οτ υιος ανθρωπου εστιν ). Rather, "because he is a son of man" (note absence of articles and so not as the Messiah), because the judge of men must partake of human nature himself (Westcott). Bernard insists that John is here giving his own reflections rather than the words of Jesus and uses υιος ανθρωπου in the same sense as ο υιος του ανθρωπου (always in the Gospels used by Jesus of himself). But that in my opinion is a wrong view since we have here ostensibly certainly the words of Jesus himself. So in Re 1:13; 4:14 υιον ανθρωπου means "a son of man."

In the tombs ( εν τοις μνημειοις ). Ταφος (grave) presents the notion of burial ( θαπτω, to bury) as in Mt 23:27, μνημειον (from μναομα, μιμνησκω, to remind) is a memorial (sepulchre as a monument). Jesus claims not only the power of life (spiritual) and of judgement, but of power to quicken the actual dead at the Last Day. They will hear his voice and come out ( εκπορευσοντα, future middle indicative of εκπορευομα ). A general judgement and a general bodily resurrection we have here for both good and bad as in Mt 25:46; Ac 24:15; 2Co 5:10 and as often implied in the words of Jesus (Mt 5:29f.; 10:28; Lu 11:32). In Joh 6:39 Jesus asserts that he will raise up the righteous.