Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, х erchetai (G2064) hoora (G5610)] - or, 'There cometh an hour;' that is, in its whole fullness it was only "coming," namely, at Pentecost.
And now is - in its beginnings.
When the dead - the spiritually dead, as is clear from John 5:28, (see the note at Luke 9:64 ,)
Shall hear the voice of the Son of God. Here our Lord rises from the calmer phrase "hearing His word" (John 5:24) to the grander expression, "hearing the voice of the Son of God," to signify that as it finds men in a dead condition, so it carries with it a divine resurrection-power.
And they that hear shall live - in the largest sense of the word, as at the close of John 5:24.