John 5
1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3-4 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
7 "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me." 8 Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat. 11 But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"
12 So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?" 13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. 14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you." 15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. 17 In his defense Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working." 18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
19 Jesus gave them this answer: "Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. 22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.
24 "Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. 25 Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 27 And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.
28 "Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned. 30 By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
31 "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 32 There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is true. 33 "You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. 34 Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved. 35 John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.
36 "I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, 38 nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. 39 You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you possess eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
41 "I do not accept glory from human beings, 42 but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. 43 I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. 44 How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
45 "But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. 47 But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?"
1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3-4 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
7 "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me." 8 Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat. 11 But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"
12 So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?" 13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. 14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you." 15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. 17 In his defense Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working." 18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
19 Jesus gave them this answer: "Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. 22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.
24 "Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. 25 Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 27 And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.
28 "Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned. 30 By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
31 "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 32 There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is true. 33 "You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. 34 Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved. 35 John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.
36 "I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, 38 nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. 39 You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you possess eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
41 "I do not accept glory from human beings, 42 but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. 43 I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. 44 How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
45 "But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. 47 But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?"
John 5: 1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda (“Bethesda” means “house of mercy,” an appropriate or ironic term when we realize the oppressive state of the people lying there in hope of a miracle cure.) and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
3-4 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. (IN most translations verse four has something to do with, "an angel of the Lord stirring the water and the first person who stepped in being healed" is found in some early manuscripts, but not the earliest. Therefore verse 4 should not be considered part of Scripture, although verse 7, which is in all manuscripts, shows that people believed something like what this statement reports.) 5 One who was there had been an invalid (probably means “paralyzed,” “lame,” or “extremely weak” [the Greek term is the general expression for a “disabled” condition]. For a similar healing see Mark 9:1-8) for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
7 "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me." 8 Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat." ( The truth is nothing in the OT specifically prohibits someone from carrying one's bedroll on the Sabbath day [Exodus 20:8-11], but the man was violating later Oral-Jewish traditions called the Mishnah which was developed to help people not break the broader law of the Torah by enforching hundreds of very detailed and burdensome rules about what kind of “work” was prohibited, including a law that forbid carrying an object “from one domain into another”. Nonetheless, Jesus does not defend himself by getting into a rabbinic discussion on the nature of work. Rather, he claims he is working, just like God [John 5:17], and hence is, as the Synoptics teach, the lord of the Sabbath [Matthew 12:8; Mark 2:28; Luke 6:5]). 11 But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"
12 So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?" 13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. 14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you." 15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him (Jesus' Jewish opponents were putting their merely human religious tradition above genuine love and compassion for others, which the OT commanded [Lev 19:18] and Jesus exemplified. It was Jesus, not these Jews, who was truly obeying the Scriptures.). 17 In his defense Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working." (By saying, “My Father is working until now, and I am working,” Jesus implies that he, like the Father, is lord over the Sabbath. Therefore this is a claim to deity. These Jews recognize what he is claiming, as you notice their reaction in John 5:18. While Genesis 2:2-3 teaches that God rested on the seventh day of creation, Jewish rabbis agreed that God continually upholds the universe, yet without breaking the Sabbath.) 18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
19 Jesus gave them this answer: "Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it (Jesus' statement that the Son also gives life to whom he is pleased to give it to is another claim to deity, showing that Jesus does what only God can do, for the OT makes clear that raising the dead and giving life are the sole prerogatives of God [Deut 32:29; 1 Samuel 2:6; 2 Kings 5:7]. This “life” is both the new “life” now given to believers [John 5:24; 11:15-16; 2 Corinthians 5:17] and the resurrection of the body at Christ's second coming [1 Corinthians 15:42-57; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; possibly Danial 12:2]. 22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son (another claime to diety - Genesis 18:25 and Judges 11:27), 23 that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him (The statement that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Fatherhat all may honor the Son and whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father is yet another claim to deity and establishes Jesus' right to be worshiped).
24 "Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. 25 Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live (Here Jesus is not emphasizing the final resurrection but the present reality and experience of eternal life, for he says the hour is now here. The phrase the dead refers to the spiritually dead who hear Jesus' message and believe.). 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself (This verse explains why the voice of Jesus is able to speak to dead people and grant them life. Just as the Father was never created and was never given his life by someone else, but rather has life in himself, so that he can impart that life to others, so the Son, also has life in himself and is able to call the dead to life. Then when it says, "he has granted..." it doesn't mean that the Father created the Son [1:3] but that the Father authorized the Son to give life to other people, thus this verse explains verse 25. This statement about “life in himself” echoes the affirmation in the John 1 that “in him [Jesus] was life” [1:4; 3:15-16; 11:25]). 27 And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man (Jesus is not only the divine Son of God but also the truly human “Son of Man” who is the eternal world ruler prophesied in Daniel 7:13-14, the Father has given him authority to carry out the final judgment of every human being.).
28 "Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned [Jesus reaffirms the resurrection on the last day. [Daniel 12:2]. Those who have done what is good . . . those who have done what is evil does not imply that people's deeds in this life are the basis on which judgment is pronounced [for that would contradict John's strong emphasis on belief in Jesus as the way to gain eternal life-John 3:16; 5:24-25, and the entire book of Romans.]. Instead, good works function as evidence of true faith, and if good works are lacking they show an absence of true faith. All those who truly believe will be brought “from death to life” [v. 24] and as a consequence will do good and will therefore enjoy the ressurretion of life). 30 By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
31 "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 32 There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is true. 33 "You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. 34 Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved. 35 John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.
36 "I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, 38 nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. 39 You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you possess eternal life (The study of Scripture does not by itself bring life. The Scriptures rather bear witness to the One who gives life, namely, Jesus. Consequently, the study of the Bible ought to result in genuine faith in Jesus, followed by obedient action and transformed lives, not merely acquisition of Bible knowledge.). These are the very Scriptures that testify about me (PThis sentence backs up the notes before this, and that is that the scriptures point to Christ, and if we can read them like the Pharisees without seeing that it all points to Jesus, then we fail to understand its message), 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
41 "I do not accept glory from human beings, 42 but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. 43 I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. 44 How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
45 "But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me (this assumes that genuine believers have a heart that is receptive to the true words of God, and therefore those who believe the words of God as written by Moses [Genesis–Deuteronomy] will also recognize receive the words of God as spoken by Jesus. Those who disbelieve Moses' writings will also disbelieve Jesus. For he wrote of me applies not only to specific predictions like Deut 18:15 but also to all the ways in which the history of salvation in these writings pointed to Christ [Luke 24:27,44; John 1:45; John 3:14; John 8:56; Acts 26:22; 1 Corinthians 10:4; Hebrews 11:23-26; 1 Peter 1:10-12; Jude 5]. 47 But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?
3-4 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. (IN most translations verse four has something to do with, "an angel of the Lord stirring the water and the first person who stepped in being healed" is found in some early manuscripts, but not the earliest. Therefore verse 4 should not be considered part of Scripture, although verse 7, which is in all manuscripts, shows that people believed something like what this statement reports.) 5 One who was there had been an invalid (probably means “paralyzed,” “lame,” or “extremely weak” [the Greek term is the general expression for a “disabled” condition]. For a similar healing see Mark 9:1-8) for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
7 "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me." 8 Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat." ( The truth is nothing in the OT specifically prohibits someone from carrying one's bedroll on the Sabbath day [Exodus 20:8-11], but the man was violating later Oral-Jewish traditions called the Mishnah which was developed to help people not break the broader law of the Torah by enforching hundreds of very detailed and burdensome rules about what kind of “work” was prohibited, including a law that forbid carrying an object “from one domain into another”. Nonetheless, Jesus does not defend himself by getting into a rabbinic discussion on the nature of work. Rather, he claims he is working, just like God [John 5:17], and hence is, as the Synoptics teach, the lord of the Sabbath [Matthew 12:8; Mark 2:28; Luke 6:5]). 11 But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"
12 So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?" 13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. 14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you." 15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him (Jesus' Jewish opponents were putting their merely human religious tradition above genuine love and compassion for others, which the OT commanded [Lev 19:18] and Jesus exemplified. It was Jesus, not these Jews, who was truly obeying the Scriptures.). 17 In his defense Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working." (By saying, “My Father is working until now, and I am working,” Jesus implies that he, like the Father, is lord over the Sabbath. Therefore this is a claim to deity. These Jews recognize what he is claiming, as you notice their reaction in John 5:18. While Genesis 2:2-3 teaches that God rested on the seventh day of creation, Jewish rabbis agreed that God continually upholds the universe, yet without breaking the Sabbath.) 18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
19 Jesus gave them this answer: "Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it (Jesus' statement that the Son also gives life to whom he is pleased to give it to is another claim to deity, showing that Jesus does what only God can do, for the OT makes clear that raising the dead and giving life are the sole prerogatives of God [Deut 32:29; 1 Samuel 2:6; 2 Kings 5:7]. This “life” is both the new “life” now given to believers [John 5:24; 11:15-16; 2 Corinthians 5:17] and the resurrection of the body at Christ's second coming [1 Corinthians 15:42-57; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; possibly Danial 12:2]. 22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son (another claime to diety - Genesis 18:25 and Judges 11:27), 23 that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him (The statement that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Fatherhat all may honor the Son and whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father is yet another claim to deity and establishes Jesus' right to be worshiped).
24 "Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. 25 Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live (Here Jesus is not emphasizing the final resurrection but the present reality and experience of eternal life, for he says the hour is now here. The phrase the dead refers to the spiritually dead who hear Jesus' message and believe.). 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself (This verse explains why the voice of Jesus is able to speak to dead people and grant them life. Just as the Father was never created and was never given his life by someone else, but rather has life in himself, so that he can impart that life to others, so the Son, also has life in himself and is able to call the dead to life. Then when it says, "he has granted..." it doesn't mean that the Father created the Son [1:3] but that the Father authorized the Son to give life to other people, thus this verse explains verse 25. This statement about “life in himself” echoes the affirmation in the John 1 that “in him [Jesus] was life” [1:4; 3:15-16; 11:25]). 27 And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man (Jesus is not only the divine Son of God but also the truly human “Son of Man” who is the eternal world ruler prophesied in Daniel 7:13-14, the Father has given him authority to carry out the final judgment of every human being.).
28 "Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned [Jesus reaffirms the resurrection on the last day. [Daniel 12:2]. Those who have done what is good . . . those who have done what is evil does not imply that people's deeds in this life are the basis on which judgment is pronounced [for that would contradict John's strong emphasis on belief in Jesus as the way to gain eternal life-John 3:16; 5:24-25, and the entire book of Romans.]. Instead, good works function as evidence of true faith, and if good works are lacking they show an absence of true faith. All those who truly believe will be brought “from death to life” [v. 24] and as a consequence will do good and will therefore enjoy the ressurretion of life). 30 By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
31 "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 32 There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is true. 33 "You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. 34 Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved. 35 John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.
36 "I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, 38 nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. 39 You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you possess eternal life (The study of Scripture does not by itself bring life. The Scriptures rather bear witness to the One who gives life, namely, Jesus. Consequently, the study of the Bible ought to result in genuine faith in Jesus, followed by obedient action and transformed lives, not merely acquisition of Bible knowledge.). These are the very Scriptures that testify about me (PThis sentence backs up the notes before this, and that is that the scriptures point to Christ, and if we can read them like the Pharisees without seeing that it all points to Jesus, then we fail to understand its message), 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
41 "I do not accept glory from human beings, 42 but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. 43 I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. 44 How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
45 "But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me (this assumes that genuine believers have a heart that is receptive to the true words of God, and therefore those who believe the words of God as written by Moses [Genesis–Deuteronomy] will also recognize receive the words of God as spoken by Jesus. Those who disbelieve Moses' writings will also disbelieve Jesus. For he wrote of me applies not only to specific predictions like Deut 18:15 but also to all the ways in which the history of salvation in these writings pointed to Christ [Luke 24:27,44; John 1:45; John 3:14; John 8:56; Acts 26:22; 1 Corinthians 10:4; Hebrews 11:23-26; 1 Peter 1:10-12; Jude 5]. 47 But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?
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