John 5:46
for if ye were believing Moses, ye would have been believing me, for he wrote concerning me;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
In Context
47but if his writings ye believe not, how shall ye believe my sayings?'
Cross References
Genesis 3:15and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee — the head, and thou dost bruise him — the heel.'
Genesis 18:18and Abraham certainly becometh a nation great and mighty, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?
Genesis 28:14and thy seed hath been as the dust of the land, and thou hast broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in thee and in thy seed.
Numbers 21:8And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Make for thee a burning [serpent], and set it on an ensign; and it hath been, every one who is bitten and hath seen it — he hath lived.
Deuteronomy 18:15'A prophet out of thy midst, out of thy brethren, like to me, doth Jehovah thy God raise up to thee — unto him ye hearken;
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 →