¹¹ But Moses implored the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?^{(A) 12} Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people.^{(B) 13} Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, how you swore to them by your own self, saying to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”^(C)

Judgment on False Teachers

⁵ Now I desire to remind you, though you are fully informed, once and for all, that Jesus, who saved^[a] a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.^(A)

³¹ “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.^{(A) 32} There is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that his testimony to me is true.^{(B) 33} You sent messengers to John, and he testified to the truth.^{(C) 34} Not that I accept such human testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved. ³⁵ He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.^{(D) 36} But I have a testimony greater than John’s. The works that the Father has given me to complete, the very works that I am doing, testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.^{(E) 37} And the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen his form,^{(F) 38} and you do not have his word abiding in you, because you do not believe him whom he has sent.^(G)

³⁹ “You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life, and it is they that testify on my behalf.^{(H) 40} Yet you refuse to come to me to have life. ⁴¹ I do not accept glory from humans. ⁴² But I know that you do not have the love of God in^[a] you. ⁴³ I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; if another comes in his own name, you will accept him. ⁴⁴ How can you believe when you accept glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is God?^{[b](I) 45} Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope.^{(J) 46} If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.^{(K) 47} But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?”