John 5:46

For if you were having emunah in Moshe, you would have had emunah in me, for he himself wrote concerning me. + 5:46 Gn 3:15; 45:4-9; Dt 18:15

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

45Do not think that I will accuse you before HaAv; however, there is one accusing you: Moshe, in whom you have set your tikvah. + 5:45 Dt 31:26-27

47But if in the Kitvei Hakodesh of that one you lack emunah, how will you have emunah in my dvar?

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Cross References

Genesis 3:15And I will put eivah + 3:15 enmity, Midrash Rabbah 23:5 between thee and HaIsha, + 3:15 See HaAlmah, Isa 7:14 1 and between thy zera and her Zera; 1 He shall crush thy rosh, 1 and thou shalt strike His akev (heel).

Genesis 18:18Seeing that Avraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and kol goyei ha'aretz (all the nations of the earth) shall be blessed in him?

Genesis 28:14And thy zera shall be as the dust of ha'aretz, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy zera shall kol hamishpochot haadamah be blessed.

Numbers 21:8And Hashem said unto Moshe, Make thee a fiery serpent, set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

Deuteronomy 18:15Hashem Eloheicha will raise up unto thee a Navi from among thee, of thy achim, kamoni (like me); + 18:15 Moshe, Ex 32:30 unto him ye must listen;

Luke 24:27And having begun from Moshe Rabbenu and from all the Neviim, he explained to them in all the Kitvei Hakodesh the things concerning himself. + 24:27 Gn 3:15; Num 21:9; Dt 18:15; Isa 7:14; 9:6; 40:10,11; 53; Ezek 34:23; Dan 9:24; Ps 22; Mal 3:1

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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