For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me, [ episteuete (G4100)] - rather, 'If ye believed Moses, ye would believe Me.' For he wrote of me - an important testimony, as Alford remarks, to the subject of the whole Pentateuch, "of ME."
Verse John 5:46. _HE WROTE OF ME._] For instance, in reciting the prophecy of Jacob, Genesis 49:10. _The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from_ _between his feet, until SHILOH come...
DO NOT THINK THAT I WILL ACCUSE YOU - Do not suppose that I intend to follow your example. They had accused Jesus of breaking the law of God, John 5:16. He says that he will not imitate their example,...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Healing of the Impotent Man. (John 5:1 .)_ 2. The Opposition of the Jews. (John 5:10 .) 3. His Unity with the Father. (John 5:19 .) 4. The Present Hour. Believers Delivered from...
This summary suggests that Jesus-' opponents had accused Him of self-glorification. In answer He traces back their failure to accept His message to want of that love of God which their study of Script...
HAD YE BELIEVED MOSES, YE WOULD HAVE BELIEVED ME. Moses recorded various prophecies that were fulfilled in Christ, and all the types, shadows and symbols pointed to him. Had they believed Moses they o...
MAN'S HELPLESSNESS AND CHRIST'S POWER (John 5:1-9)...
How can you believe when you are out for the glory that you get from each other, and when you do not search for the glory which comes from the only God? Do not think that it is I who will accuse you t...
HAD YE. if (App-118. a) ye had. WROTE. See App-47. ME. See note on Luke 24:27....
_Do not appeal to Moses; his writings condemn you_. Thus the whole basis of their confidence is cut away. Moses on whom they trust as a defender is their accuser....
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
_had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me_ Better, IF _ye believed Moses, ye_ WOULD BELIEVE _Me:_the verbs are imperfects, not aorists. See on John 8:19 (where we have a similar mistranslation...
ΕἸ … ἘΠΙΣΤΕΎΕΤΕ. IF YE BELIEVED (as in John 5:47) _M., ye_ WOULD BELIEVE _Me_: not ‘had ye believed,’ ‘would have believed,’ which would have required aorists. Comp. John 8:19 (where A.V. has a simila...
45–47. _Do not appeal to Moses: his writings condemn you_. Thus the whole basis of their confidence is out away. Moses on whom they trust as a defender is their accuser....
THE UNBELIEF OF THE JEWS...
THE DISCOURSE ON THE SON AS THE SOURCE OF LIFE...
Ver 41. I receive not honor from men. 42. But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you. 43. I am come in my Father's name, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, hi...
_A WITNESS TO JESUS -- JOHN 5:31-47:_ Jesus called the attention of the Jews to the fact that God the Father was His witness. John was a great witness but the things that the Father had given Him to d...
ΈΠΙΣΤΕΎΕΤΕ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΠΙΣΤΈΎΩ, _см._ John 5:44. _Impf._ в _conj._, противоречащем факту, ΈΓΡΑΨΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΓΡΆΦΩ (G1125) писать. Обобщ. _aor._ рассматривает Писание как единое цел...
DISCOURSE: 1634 UNBELIEF REBUKED John 5:45. _Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have...
FOR HE WROTE OF ME.— _"Had you believed_ the writings of _Moses,_ which are daily read in your synagogues, _you would have believed me;_ for these writings describe me, as by a variety of striking typ...
THE WITNESS OF THE SCRIPTURES _Text 5:39-47_ 39 Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; 40 and ye will not come...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 5:31-47 We begin with our usual Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— "If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true" (John 5:31). Every comm...
31 The usual rendering, "If I bear witness of Myself My witness is not true", _ is not true_! The Lord Himself insisted, on another occasion, that His testimony concerning Himself _ was _ true. "And i...
HE WROTE OF ME] in type and figure as well as in direct prophecy....
BETHESDA. CHRIST AND THE SABBATH 1-47. A miracle at the Pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath Day, and a controversy arising therefrom. This miracle may be regarded as a parable illustrating the deadly effe...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS CURES A SICK MAN 5:1-15 V1 After this, Jesus went to *Jerusalem for another *Jewish *festival. V2 There was a p...
FOR HAD YE BELIEVED MOSES. — The present incredulity springs from that of the past. If they had really believed Moses, they would have seen in the whole spirit of the Pentateuch a manifestation of God...
CHAPTER 13 JESUS LIFE-GIVER AND JUDGE. “The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. And for this cause did the Jews persecute Jesus, because He did these things o...
They will be accused by Moses because their unbelief in Christ convicts them of unbelief in Moses, εἰ γὰρ … ἐμοί. Had they believed the revelation made by Moses and understood it, they would necessari...
WILLFUL REJECTION OF TRUTH CONDEMNED John 5:39-47 Our Lord was accused by the Jews of Sabbath breaking. There were many grounds on which He might have claimed exoneration, but He forbore to use them....
It was at this time that the conflict between Christ and His enemies, which culminated in His Cross began. A miracle wrought on the Sabbath gave rise to this first outbreak. Throughout this chapter we...
CHAPTER 13 THE POOL OF BETHESDA John 5:1-47. _“After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.”_ You always find the phraseology in the Bible, _“Go up to Jerusalem.”...
FIRST SECTION: 5:1-47. FIRST OUTBREAK OF HATRED IN JUDEA. 1. The miracle, occasion of the conflict: John 5:1-16; John 2. The discourse of Jesus, commentary and defense of the miracle: John 5:17-47....
II. THE DISCOURSE OF JESUS: JOHN 5:17-47. In this discourse which is designed to vindicate the act which He has just performed, the three following thoughts are developed: 1. Jesus justifies His work...
III. THE CONDEMNATION OF JEWISH UNBELIEF: JOHN 5:41-47. In John 5:41-44, Jesus unfolds the cause of the moral antipathy which keeps them away from Him; in John 5:45-47, the terrible consequences of th...
“ _Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you_, _Moses, on whom ye have set your hope._ 46. _For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me._ 47....
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. (16) And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
_THE TESTIMONY OF MOSES_ ‘For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed Me: for he wrote of Me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe My words?’ John 5:46 We might almost so...
46._For if you believed Moses, you would also believe me. _He shows why Moses will be their accuser. It is because they do not reject his doctrine. We know that it is impossible to offer a greater ins...
chapter 5 contrasts the quickening power of Christ, the power and the right of giving life to the dead, with the powerlessness of legal ordinances. They required strength in the person that was to pro...
FOR HAD YE BELIEVED MOSES,.... The doctrine of Moses, and what he says in his writings: YE WOULD HAVE BELIEVED ME; for there is an agreement between Moses and Christ; Christ is the end of the law of...
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. Ver. 46. _For he wrote of me_] Both clearly and mystically, in the many sacrifices and ceremonies of the law. Whence Theodore...
The authority of the Scriptures:...
FOR HAD YE BELIEVED MOSES, YE WOULD HAVE BELIEVED ME; FOR HE WROTE OF ME....
AGAIN IN JERUSALEM: THE POOL OF BETHESDA (vs.1-15) Once more we find the Lord Jesus visiting Jerusalem, and as in Chapter 2:13 the feast is called "the Jews' Passover" rather than the Passover of Jeh...
45-47 Many trust in some form of doctrines or some parties, who no more enter into the real meaning of those doctrines, or the views of the persons whose names they bear, than the Jews did into those...
Had you given a hearty credit and understanding assent to Moses, that is, to the writings of Moses, for so the term is oft taken, LUKE 16:31, LUKE 24:27, you would have received me: as all the law of...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians If, then, those who were conversant with the ancient Scriptures came to newness of hope, expecting the coming of Christ, as the Lord teaches us when He says, "If...
John 5:46 For G1063 G1487 believed G4100 (G5707) Moses G3475 believe G4100 (G5707) G302 Me...
“Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father, there is one who accuses you, Moses on whom you have set your hope. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me. But if you do n...
John 5:46. FOR IF YE BELIEVED MOSES, YE WOULD BELIEVE ME: FOR HE WROTE CONCERNING ME. Our Lord, no doubt, refers in part to special predictions (such as that of Deuteronomy 18:15; Deuteronomy 18:18);...
The performance of the miracle of healing on the sabbath had roused the active opposition of the Jews to Jesus, and that again had led to the great declaration contained in John 5:17, in which Jesus a...
YE WOULD BELIEVE ME (επιστευετε αν εμο). Conclusion of condition of second class (determined as unfulfilled) with imperfect indicative in both protasis and apodosis and αν in apodosis. This was a h...
CONTENTS: Healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda. Jesus answers the Jews. The four-fold witness to Jesus. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, infirm man, John the Baptist, Moses. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ, th...
John 5:2. _Now there is at Jerusalem a pool, called Bethesda,_ which signifies a house of mercy, beneficence, or alms. The pool was situate at too great a distance from the temple to be a place for wa...
MOSES IS THE ONE WHO WILL ACCUSE YOU. They thought they believed Moses, but they didn't! If they disbelieve Moses, whom they honored, how could they believe Christ whom they did not honor? In rejectin...
_Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father:__ THERE IS ONE THAT ACCUSETH YOU, EVEN MOSES, IN WHOM YE TRUST__._ The day of judgment is likened to a trial, and we learn that with every verdict...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:46 IF YOU BELIEVED MOSES, YOU WOULD BELIEVE ME assumes that true believers are eager to accept all the words of God, including those written by Moses (that is, Genesis
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 5:31 Jesus speaks of several witnesses who bear testimony concerning him (see chart). ⇐...
VER. 36. _But I have greater witness_, &c.: _i.e._, than John's witness; _greater_ in the sense of _surer, more efficacious_, that I am Messiah, the Son of God. This greater testimony is My works, My...
_For if ye had believed Moses, perchance_ (Vulg.) _ye would also have believed Me._ _Perchance_; so the Vulgate often translates the Greek, _άν_ : but it is here used in the sense of _assuredly_. It i...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 5:19. THE SON CAN DO NOTHING OF HIMSELF.—This statement refers back to and justifies that of John 5:17. He is still speaking of the eternal relation in which He s...
EXPOSITION Here commences the second division of the Gospel (John 5:1) II. THE CONFLICT WITH THE CHOSEN PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM, GALILEE, AND JERUSALEM, TO THE
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the fifth chapter of the gospel of John. John has just recorded in the fourth chapter the ministry of Jesus in the Galilee when He was at the city of Cana and the noblem...
Acts 26:22; Deuteronomy 18:15; Deuteronomy 18:18; Deuteronomy 18:19;...
He wrote of me — Every where; in all his writings; particularly Deuteronomy 18:15, Deuteronomy 18:18....