John 5:46
for if you were believing Moses, you would have been believing Me, for he wrote concerning Me;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
In Context
47but if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My sayings?”
Cross References
Genesis 3:15and I put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He bruises your head, and you bruise His heel.”
Genesis 18:18and Abraham certainly becomes a great and mighty nation, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?
Genesis 28:14and your seed has been as the dust of the land, and you have broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in you and in your seed.
Numbers 21:8And YHWH says to Moses, “Make a burning [serpent] for yourself, and set it on an ensign; and it has been, everyone who is bitten and has seen it—he has lived.”
Deuteronomy 18:15Your God YHWH raises up for you a Prophet like me out of your midst, out of your brothers—you must listen to Him,
Luke 24:27And having begun from Moses, and from all the Prophets, He was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about Himself.
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 →