John 5:46 Made Simple

KJV ORIGINAL

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

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✦ MADE SIMPLE

If you really believed what Moses wrote, you'd believe in me too, because he was writing about me all along.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

The whole story has been pointing to Jesus from the very beginning.

📚 Historical Context

In the time of Jesus, the Jewish leaders highly revered Moses as the great lawgiver and prophet who received the Ten Commandments from God and led the Israelites out of Egypt. Jesus was speaking to these leaders during a confrontation over his healing on the Sabbath, arguing that their failure to recognize him as the Messiah stemmed from not truly understanding Moses' writings, which pointed forward to Christ. This exchange underscores the Jewish expectation of a promised deliverer and how Jesus fulfilled Old Testament prophecies.

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