| Geneva Study Bible For the Father {g} judgeth {h} no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: (g) This word judgeth is taken by the figure of speech synecdoche to represent all governing. (h) These words are not to be taken as though they simply denied that God governed the world, but rather they deny that he governed as the Jews imagined it, who separate the Father from the Son, whereas indeed, the Father does not govern the world, but only in the person of his Son, being made manifest in the flesh: so he says below in Joh 5:30, that he came not to do his own will: that his doctrine is not his own, that the blind man and his parents did not sin Joh 7:16 Joh 9:3, etc. People's New Testament 5:19-21 Then answered Jesus. To their charge of blasphemy. He shows that there is the closest co-operation between the Father and Son. What the Father does the Son will do, even to the extent of giving life to the dead. Wesley's Notes 5:22 For neither doth the Father judge - Not without the Son: but he doth judge by that man whom he hath ordained, Acts 17:31. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 22. For the Father judgeth no man, &c.-rather, "For neither doth the Father judge any man," implying that the same "thing was meant in the former verse of the quickening of the dead"-both acts being done, not by the Father and the Son, as though twice done, but by the Father through the Son as His voluntary Agent. all judgment-judgment in its most comprehensive sense, or as we should say, all administration. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 5:17-23 The Divine power of the miracle proved Jesus to be the Son of God, and he declared that he worked with, and like unto his Father, as he saw good. These ancient enemies of Christ understood him, and became more violent, charging him not only with sabbath-breaking, but blasphemy, in calling God his own Father, and making himself equal with God. But all things now, and at the final judgment, are committed to the Son, purposely that all men might honour the Son, as they honour the Father; and every one who does not thus honour the Son, whatever he may think or pretend, does not honour the Father who sent him. | 
