John 5:47

Jesus’ critics did not believe Moses’ writings or they would have accepted Jesus. Since they rejected Moses’ writings it was natural that they would reject Jesus’ words. Both men spoke the words of God, who was their authority. The Jews rejection of Moses’ writings was essentially a rejection of God’s Word. Jesus believed that Moses wrote the Torah (Pentateuch), something many critical scholars deny.

This discourse constituted a condemnation of Jesus’ critics and an invitation to believe on Him. Jesus cited much testimony that God the Father had given that identified Jesus as the divine Messiah. These witnesses were, beside God the Father, John the Baptist, all of Jesus’ works, all that the Father had previously revealed that pointed to Jesus, the Old Testament, and specifically the witness of Moses in the Torah (Pentateuch).

John omitted many events in the life of Jesus that the Synoptic evangelists recorded as happening between John 5:47; John 6:1. These include the resumption of Jesus’ Galilean ministry (Matthew 5-7; Matthew 8:5-13; Matthew 8:18; Matthew 8:23-34; Matthew 9:18-35; Matthew 10:1 to Matthew 13:53; Matthew 14:1-12; Mark 2:23 to Mark 6:30; Luke 6:1 to Luke 9:10 a).