This verse is often misinterpreted as promising universal salvation for everyone regardless of faith, ignoring the distinction in the following verse between resurrection to life and to damnation; others reduce it to a merely spiritual metaphor for personal enlightenment rather than a literal future bodily resurrection of all the dead; some preterists claim it was fulfilled in first-century events like the destruction of Jerusalem, denying a still-future global event; while annihilationists might twist it to suggest the wicked cease existence rather than face eternal judgment.
John 5:28
King James Version (1769)
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
Jesus declares the certainty of a future resurrection for all humanity, where every person in the grave will hear his authoritative voice and rise, either to life for the righteous or condemnation for the wicked, affirming his divine power over death and the inescapable reality of final judgment that motivates faith and righteous living today.