Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
- BSB Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.
- ESV 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.
- NKJV Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust.
- NASB Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.
- NLT “Yet it isn’t I who will accuse you before the Father. Moses will accuse you! Yes, Moses, in whom you put your hopes.
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Quick answer
Jesus will not accuse them; Moses, in whom they hoped, accuses them. The law they trusted condemns their unbelief.
Overview
Ironically, the very Moses on whom the leaders rested their hope stands as their accuser. The law itself testifies against those who reject the one it foreshadowed. This warns that misplaced confidence in religious heritage cannot save apart from faith in Christ.
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- Gal 3:10For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
- Rom 3:19–20Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
- 2 Cor 3:7–11But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
- Rom 2:12For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
- Rom 10:5–10For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
- John 9:28–29Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses’ disciples.
- Rom 2:17–29Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
- John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
- Matt 19:7–8They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
- John 8:5–6Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
- Rom 7:9–14For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
- John 8:9And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
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