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"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.
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Your Shield is Your Accuser
Commentators highlight a stunning irony. The Jewish leaders used their reverence for Moses as a shield to reject Jesus. However, Jesus declares that Moses himself is their accuser. Because Moses wrote about the coming Messiah, their rejection of Jesus was a direct disobedience to the very authority in whom they placed their hope.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 Go…
Think not (μη δοκειτε). Prohibition with μη and the present imperative. See on verse 39 for δοκεω for mistaken opinions in John.
19th Century
Anglican
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father.—His words were words of direct accusation, which must have cut to the …
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16th Century
Protestant
Think not that I shall accuse you to the Father. This is the way in which we ought to deal with obstinate and hardened people, when they l…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father To God the Father, as the Ethiopic version reads. The Syriac and P…
Many trust in some form of doctrines or some parties, who no more enter into the real meaning of those doctrines, or the views of the persons whose…
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13th Century
Catholic
After God confirmed the greatness of His power through the testimonies of men, of God Himself, and of the Scriptures, He here rebukes the…
