Jesus could do nothing of His own. He only did what He saw the Father doing. That’s the easy answer as to why just one person of the multitude was healed. That’s what the Father was doing at that time, so that’s what Jesus did.

Our relationship with Jesus is like that between Him and His Father. We’re to do His works. The Father loved Him and showed Him His works. Jesus loves us and showed us His works.

Jesus speaks of how He has been given the authority to judge, but also of how His judgment is just because He doesn’t seek His own will.  He then speaks of the final resurrection.

There are two resurrections mentioned by Jesus here: the resurrection of life for those who have done good, and the resurrection of judgment for those who have done evil.

Those who have done good get to skip judgment and just go to life. We are only judged in receiving our reward for all the good we’ve done.

Where is the evil? Our sins are forgiven. Our evil is removed. Our list of wrongdoing is blotted out by the blood of Christ. We won’t face any judgment over any of our sins.

We are, however, repeatedly told in Scripture that we are judged by our works. Our only work isn’t just believing Jesus died on the cross so our sins could be forgiven. If we are believers, we obey His commands. We love. We care for the poor. We live for others and not for ourselves. We go and make disciples.

Jesus is speaking against “the Jews” here, saying that they don’t have God’s love in them. But if we did believe, and did have His love, we’d hear Him and find life in His Word — all the things Jesus says they don’t have.

We search the Scriptures for life, but the life is in Christ. The Bible has life for us only in that it gives us Jesus. The Scriptures alone aren’t sufficient for salvation; Jesus is.