John 5:46

For if you did believe Moses, you would perhaps believe me also: for he wrote of me.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

In Context

45Think not that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one that accuseth you, Moses, in whom you trust.

47But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?

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Cross References

Genesis 3:15I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel. She shall crush... Ipsa, the woman; so divers of the fathers read this place, conformably to the Latin: others read it ipsum, viz., the seed. The sense is the same: for it is by her seed, Jesus Christ, that the woman crushes the serpent's head.

Genesis 18:18Seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth shall be blessed?

Genesis 28:14And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and IN THEE and thy seed, all the tribes of the earth SHALL BE BLESSED.

Numbers 21:8And the Lord said to him: Make a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: whosoever being struck shall look on it, shall live.

Deuteronomy 18:15The Lord thy God will raise up to thee a PROPHET of thy nation and of thy brethren like unto me: him thou shalt hear:

Luke 24:27And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things that were concerning him.

Matthew Henry on John 5:32-47

Christ Proves His Divine Mission; Infidelity of the Jews Reproved. 31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. 33 Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth. 34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved. 35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. 36 But I have greater witness than that… Read the whole commentary →

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