John 5:46
For if you trusted Moses [Drawn out], you would trust me; for he wrote about me.
One Unity Resource Bible
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 don’t trust his writings, how will you trust my words?”
Cross References
Genesis 3:15+ 3:15 a MP: Enmity between “Thy seed and her seed” Women have ovum, not seed as males, therefore this is a miraculous birth. (Luke 1:35 with John 12:31) I will put hostility between you and the woman, 2 and between your offspring and her offspring. 1 + 3:15 b MP: Messiah’s heels bruise the serpent’s head. The serpent retaliates, but is hurled down from power. (John 12:31-33; Heb 2:14-15; Rev 12:10, 20:1-3) He will bruise your head, 2 and you will bruise his heel.”
Genesis 18:18since Abraham [Father of a multitude] will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
Genesis 28:14Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring will all the families of the earth be blessed.
Numbers 21:8Adonai said to Moses [Drawn out], “Make a fiery serpent, and set it up + 21:8. Quoted in John 12:34 on a pole. It shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”
Deuteronomy 18:15+ 18:15. Deut 18:15 (#1.50): T. “Adonai your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, among your brethren, like unto me (Moses); to him you shall listen” (v15) / R. To obey every prophet who speaks in the name of Adonai, as it is written “unto him you shall listen” / R. Listen to the prophet speaking in Adonai’s Name. R. The Rabbis clarify: the prophet is to be obeyed provided he neither adds to nor takes away from the Torah ·Teaching· + 18:15. MP: Moses [Drawn out] prophecies God will raise up a prophet like himself among the people of Israel. (2 Sam 8:2, 8:14; Luke 4:23-24, 4:32 (context 4:16-32); 1 Cor 15:25) Adonai your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall sh'ma ·hear obey· him. + 18:15. Quoted in John 7:40; Acts 3:22, 7:37
Luke 24:27Beginning from Moses [Drawn out] and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning 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 →