<p>5:25 <i>Truly, truly, I say to you: The hour comes and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live</i>- As explained above, if we have the spirit of Christ, we are living the eternal life. In that sense the resurrection has happened to us; but the physical transformation of our body from mortal to immortal is yet to happen, at the resurrection to life at the last day. And so He says that that hour comes and yet now is. Just as they shall come forth to life at the sound of the Lord's literal voice at His coming, so we come to spiritual life now as a result of hearing His word / voice. &quot;Hearing&quot; here implies more than literal hearing, but hearing with belief, just as 'seeing' in John means seeing and believing.</p><p>But the Lord's &quot;hour&quot; in John also has reference to His death. The judgment quality of the crucifixion is reflected by the way in which the Lord speaks of both the cross and the day of future judgment as &quot;the hour&quot; (Jn. 5:25-29). When the Lord taught that &quot;the hour&quot; is both to come and &quot;now is&quot;, He surely meant us to understand that in His crucifixion, properly perceived, there is the judgment of this world, the end of this age for us who believe in Him, the cutting off of sin. The way that the Lord Jesus is 'sat down upon' the Judgment Bench by Pilate, as if He is the authentic judge, is further confirmation that in His Passion, the Lord was truly Judge of this world.<br />The hour that was coming and yet was refers to the Lord&rsquo;s death. There, the voice of the Son of God was made clear. We have shown elsewhere how the Lord&rsquo;s blood is personified as a voice crying out. Those who truly hear that voice will be raised to life. The way the graves opened at His death was surely a foretaste of this. See on Jn. 16:25.</p>