John 5:39-47

Expanded Bible

³⁹ You ·carefully study [search; examine] the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. They do in fact ·tell [testify; witness] ·about me [concerning me; on my behalf], ⁴⁰ but you ·refuse [do not want] to come to me to have that life.

⁴¹ “I don’t ·need [or accept; receive] ·praise [glory; honor] from people. ⁴² But I know you—I know that you don’t have God’s love in you. ⁴³ I have come ·from my Father and speak for him [^Lin my Father’s name], ·but [or and] you don’t ·accept [receive] me. But when another person comes, ·speaking only for himself [^Lin his own name], you will ·accept [receive] him. ⁴⁴ You try to ·get praise [receive glory/honor] from each other, but you do not try to ·get the praise [receive glory/honor] that comes from the only God. So how can you believe? ⁴⁵ Don’t think that I will ·stand before the Father and say you are wrong [^Laccuse you before the Father]. The one who ·says you are wrong [^Laccuses you] is Moses, the one ·you hoped would save you [^Lin whom you hoped]. ⁴⁶ [^LFor] If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, because Moses wrote about me [^Cin the Torah, the first five books of the OT; for example, Deut. 18:15 quoted in Acts 3:22]. ⁴⁷ But if you don’t believe what Moses wrote, how can you believe what I say?”