John 5:46

Green's Literal Translation

For if you were believing Moses, you would then believe Me; for that one wrote concerning Me.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For had ye beleved Moses ye wold have beleved me: for he wrote of me.

Hebrew Names Version
For if you believed Moshe, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

International Standard Version
For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, for it was about me that he wrote.Genesis 3:15; 12:3; 18:18; 22:18; 49:10; Deuteronomy 18:15,18; John 1:45; Acts 26:22;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
"For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me.

New Century Version
If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, because Moses wrote about me.

Update Bible Version
For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.

Webster's Bible Translation
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote concerning me.

English Standard Version
For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.

World English Bible
For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me.

Weymouth's New Testament
For if you believe Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For if ye bileueden to Moises, perauenture ye schulden bileue also to me; for he wroot of me.

English Revised Version
For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me.

Berean Standard Bible
If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.

Contemporary English Version
Moses wrote about me, and if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me.

Amplified Bible
"For if you believed and relied on [the Scriptures written by] Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me [personally].

American Standard Version
For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me.

Bible in Basic English
If you had belief in Moses you would have belief in me; for his writings are about me.

Complete Jewish Bible
For if you really believed Moshe, you would believe me; because it was about me that he wrote.

Darby Translation
for if ye had believed Moses, ye would have believed me, for he wrote of me.

Etheridge Translation
For if in Musha you had believed, you would also have believed in me; for Musha of me hath written.

Murdock Translation
For, if ye believed Moses, ye would also believe me; for Moses wrote concerning me.

King James Version (1611)
For had ye beleeued Moses, ye would haue beleeued me: for he wrote of me.

New Living Translation
If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

New Life Bible
If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me. For Moses wrote about Me.

New Revised Standard
If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For had ye beleeued Moses, ye would haue beleeued me: for he wrote of me.

George Lamsa Translation
For if you had believed in Moses, you would also have believed in me; because Moses wrote concerning me.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, if ye had been believing, in Moses, ye would, in that case, have been believing, in me: for, concerning me, he wrote.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if you did believe Moses, you would perhaps believe me also: for he wrote of me.

Revised Standard Version
If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For had ye beleued Moyses, ye would haue beleued me: for he wrote of me.

Good News Translation
If you had really believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me.

Christian Standard Bible®
For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

King James Version
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me.

Lexham English Bible
For if you had believed Moses, you would believe me, for that one wrote about me.

Young's Literal Translation
for if ye were believing Moses, ye would have been believing me, for he wrote concerning me;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf ye beleued Moses, ye shulde beleue me also: For he hath wrytte of me.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for had you believed Moses, you would have believed me: since he has spoke of me in his writings.

New English Translation
If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

New King James Version
For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me.

Simplified Cowboy Version
If you put so much stock in what Moses said, you would believe me because he wrote about me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me.

Legacy Standard Bible
For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me.

Contextual Overview

³¹ If I witness concerning Myself, My witness is not true; ³² it is Another that witnesses concerning Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses concerning Me is true. ³³ You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. ³⁴ But I do not receive witness from man, but I say these things that you may be saved. ³⁵ That one was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to exult in his light for an hour. ³⁶ But I have the greater witness than John's, for the works which the Father has given Me, that I should finish them, the works which I do, themselves, witness concerning Me, that the Father has sent Me. ³⁷ And the Father, the One sending Me, has Himself borne witness concerning Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor have you seen His form. ³⁸ And you do not have His Word abiding in you, for the One whom that One sent, this One you do not believe. ³⁹ You search the Scriptures, for you think in them you have everlasting life. And they are the ones witnessing concerning Me. ⁴⁰ And you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

had: Galatians 2:19, Galatians 3:10, Galatians 3:13, Galatians 3:24, Galatians 4:21-31

for: John 1:45, Genesis 3:15, Genesis 12:3, Genesis 18:18, Genesis 22:18, Genesis 28:14, Genesis 49:10, Numbers 21:8, Numbers 21:9, Numbers 24:17, Numbers 24:18, Deuteronomy 18:15, Deuteronomy 18:18, Deuteronomy 18:19, Acts 26:22, Romans 10:4, Hebrews 7:1 - Hebrews 10:39

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 30:14 - very Deuteronomy 31:9 - Moses 2 Chronicles 17:9 - the book 2 Chronicles 20:20 - believe his Song of Solomon 2:9 - showing Song of Solomon 8:2 - who Isaiah 8:20 - the law Jeremiah 6:16 - Stand Matthew 11:13 - General Luke 24:44 - in the law John 5:38 - ye have John 5:39 - Search Romans 3:21 - being Hebrews 3:5 - for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 Moses, and in him is the accomplishment of his writings:

for he wrote of me; in the books written by him, Christ is spoken of, as the seed of the woman, that should bruise the serpent's head; as the seed of Abraham, in whom all nations of the earth should be blessed; as the Shiloh, to whom the gathering of the people should be; and as that prophet, who should be like unto himself, to whom the people of Israel should hearken; and he wrote many things typically of Christ; and indeed, the whole Mosaic economy was typical of Christ, as the epistle to the Hebrews shows: and therefore disbelieving Christ, was disbelieving Moses; who therefore would be an accuser of them, and a witness against them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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, though he implies that he might accuse them.

To the Father - To God.

There is one that accuseth you - Moses might be said to accuse or reprove them. He wrote of the Messiah, clearly foretold his coming, and commanded them to hear him. As they did not do it, it might be said that they had disregarded his command; and as Moses was divinely commissioned and had a right to be obeyed, so his command reproved them: they were disobedient and rebellious.

He wrote of me - He wrote of the Messiah, and I am the Messiah, Genesis 3:15; Genesis 12:3; compare John 8:56; Genesis 49:10; Deuteronomy 18:15.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. And in Deuteronomy 18:18: I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren like unto thee; and I will put my words in his mouth, c. Confer this with Acts 3:22, and Acts 7:37. Besides, Moses pointed out the Messiah in a multitude of symbols and figures, which are found in the history of the patriarchs, the ceremonial laws, and especially in the whole sacrificial system. All these were well-defined, though shadowy representations of the birth, life, sufferings, death, and resurrection of the Saviour of the world. Add to this, Moses has given you certain marks to distinguish the false from the true prophet, Deuteronomy 13:1-3; Deuteronomy 18:22, which, if you apply to me, you will find that I am not a false but a true prophet of the Most High God.