But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
47. But if you do not believe his writings. Christ appears here to claim less authority for himself than for Moses; and yet we know that heaven and earth have been shaken by the voice of the Gospel, (Hebrews 12:26.) But Christ accommodates his discourse to those to whom he speaks; for the authority of the Law was, beyond all controversy, held sacred among the...
In these verses our Lord Jesus proves and confirms the commission he had produced, and makes it out that he was sent of God to be the Messiah. I. He sets aside his own testimony of himself (Joh 5:31): "If I bear witness of myself, though it is infallibly true (Joh 8:14), yet, according to the common rule of judgment among men, you will not...
Commenting on John 5:31-47
Verse 47. If ye believe not his writings. If you do not credit what he has written which you profess to believe, it is not to be expected that you will believe my declarations. And from this we may learn, 1st. That many men who profess to believe the Bible have really no regard for it when it crosses their own views and inclinations. 2nd.