What Does John 5:22 Mean?
For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:THE KEY
The Father’s judgment is not distant or diffuse: it has been given in its entirety to the Son.
THE MEANING
The Father judges no one; he has given all judgment to the Son. You meet judgment through the Son, whose authority rests on what the Father has given him.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that the Son has no authority to judge: the Father has given him all judgment.
THE ROOT
κρίσις
krisis
GROWS FROM
κριν
krin
To separate, distinguish, or decide.
“judges” in this verse is krisis. The word for judgment shares its stem with the verb for judging and the word for judge. The root adds the sense of distinguishing or deciding, and the verse places that whole act with the Son.
ALSO GROWS
krinō: To judge, decide, or distinguish.
κρίνω
This verb names the act that the Father gives to the Son.
kritēs: A judge.
κριτής
The same stem names the one who makes the decision, as well as the judgment itself.
krima: A decision or verdict.
κρίμα
The verdict is another branch of the same act of distinguishing.
δέδωκεν
dedōken
GROWS FROM
δο- / δίδωμι (do- / didōmi)
To give, grant, or place.
The Greek verb means “has given”; its form presents a giving whose result stands. “Committed” carries the sense of entrusting, while the root shows the judgment placed in the Son’s hands.
ALSO GROWS
didōmi: To give or grant.
δίδωμι
This is the verb’s dictionary form: the Father gives judgment to the Son.
dosis: A giving or gift.
δόσις
This noun from the same word family makes the act of giving visible beneath the verse’s language of entrusting.
THE PATTERN
God entrusts judgment to the appointed ruler, making divine authority visible through the one he gives it to.
A Psalm for Solomon. Give the king your judgments, O God, and your alignment to the king's son.And has given him authority to do judgment also, because he is the Son of Man.Because he has set a day in which he will judge the settled world in alignment, by the man whom he has marked out, giving all people trust through raising him up from among the dead.THE THREAD
Truly, truly, I say to you, Whoever hears and responds to my word, and leans his full weight on him who sent me, has the life of the ages, and does not come under the judgment, but has crossed over from death into life.“Condemnation” here translates κρίσις (krisis), from the same root as “judgment” in this verse. The next verse shows the hearer who trusts the Son’s word passing from death to life without coming into that judgment.
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