John 5:45

Translations

Modern

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.

Traditional

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.

Literal

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is the one accusing you: Moses, in whom you have hoped.

Latin

Nolite putare quia ego accusaturus sim vos apud Patrem: est qui accusat vos Moyses, in quo vos speratis.

Interlinear

Greek

English

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.

Notes

John 5:45–46

The fifth and final witness for Jesus was Moses, the central figure through whom God gave the law to Israel. Earlier in the Gospel of John, Jesus is compared with Moses, who gave the law, while Jesus brought grace and truth (1:17; see also 6:14–15). The Jewish leaders failed to accept the words of Moses, who spoke clearly about the coming Messiah, including the promise of a prophet like himself (for example, Deuteronomy 18:15).

John 5:41–47

Jewish trials were meant to discover the truth. The goal was to decide whether the charges were true or false.

If people were falsely accused, they could show that they were innocent. He could also bring charges against those who had accused him. In this situation, Jesus did that.

Theme notes and profiles

God’s Judgment of His People

Events

Bethesda pool healingc. AD 28

Related verses

Galatians 3:10
All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
Romans 3:19–20
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
Romans 2:12
All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
2 Corinthians 3:7–11
Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
John 9:28–29
Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are His disciple; we are disciples of Moses.
Romans 10:5–10
For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
Romans 2:17–29
Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
Matthew 19:7–8
“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses order a man to give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
John 7:19
Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
Romans 7:9–14
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
John 8:5–6
In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such a woman. So what do You say?”
John 8:9
When they heard this, they began to go away one by one, beginning with the older ones, until only Jesus was left, with the woman standing there.

Parallels

Luke 16:19–31

People

Moses: Prophet who led Israel out of Egypt

Glossary

Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (New Testament) John, Gospel of Miracle

Topics

Confidence: False Jesus, the Christ: Relation of, to the Father Judgment: According to Opportunity and Works The Law of Moses: The Jews: Shall be Judged By

John 5:45

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