<p>5:21 <i>For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he will</i>- The present tenses mean that the Son now gives life, and this is a development of the ideas of the prologue. The life given is the life of the Spirit, the power to live the kind of life the Lord Jesus lived. The same word is found in 6:63: &quot;It is the Spirit that quickens&quot;; so the Son &quot;gives life&quot; s.w. &quot;quickens&quot; through giving of His Spirit, the ability to live and think as He did and does. This promise is at the core of Christianity, of being like Christ. It is for all time. The Lord gave His life for us on the cross, but He gives His life to us in an ongoing sense. It is the Spirit of Christ in us now which shall quicken or make alive our mortal bodies in the process of resurrection to life at the last day (s.w. Rom. 8:11, see note there). He is a &quot;quickening spirit&quot; now as He shall be in granting the resurrection to life at the last day (1 Cor. 15:45).</p><p>Abiding in the word of Christ, His words abiding in us, abiding in love, abiding in the Father and Son (1 Jn. 4:16) are all parallel ideas. Jesus Himself &lsquo;quickens&rsquo; or breathes life into us (Jn. 5:21)- but His Spirit does this, in that His words &lsquo;are spirit&rsquo; (Jn. 6:63). Again we see how His personal presence, His life and Spirit, are breathed into us through His words being in us. In the mundane monotony of daily life, doing essentially the same job, travelling to work the same route, the alarm clock going off the same time each morning&hellip; there can be breathed into us a unique new life through having His words ever abiding within us. And this &lsquo;quickening&rsquo; in daily life now is the foretaste of the &lsquo;quickening&rsquo; which we will literally experience at the resurrection (1 Cor. 15:22- &lsquo;made alive&rsquo; is the same Greek word translated &lsquo;quicken&rsquo; in Jn. 5:21; 6:63). If the Spirit of Jesus now dwells in us, then that same Spirit shall immortalize our mortal bodies into immortality at the Lord's return (see on Rom. 8:11). In this sense, receiving and living the Lord's Spirit now is receiving life, the kind of life we shall eternally live- &quot;eternal life&quot;. The Son giving life now is therefore related seamlessly to how the Father shall give life at the resurrection to life at the last day.</p>