Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

John 5:45

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.

KJV

μὴ δοκεῖτε ὅτι ἐγὼ κατηγορήσω ὑμῶν πρὸς τὸν πατέρα· ἔστιν ὁ κατηγορῶν ὑμῶν Μωϋσῆς, εἰς ὃν ὑμεῖς ἠλπίκατε.

Greek NT

Nolite putare quia ego accusaturus sim vos apud Patrem : est qui accusat vos Moyses, in quo vos speratis.

Vulgate

Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, on whom ye have set your hope.

ASV

Think not that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one that accuseth you, Moses, in whom you trust.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Μωσεύς
moseus
noun · 81×
δοκέω
dokeo
verb · 62×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
κατηγορέω
kategoreo
verb · 23×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
πατήρ
pater
noun · 412×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐλπίζω
elpizo
verb · 31×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

1. Nothing is worse than envy and malice; through these death entered into the world. For when the devil saw man honored, he endured not his prosperity, but used every means to destroy him. Wisdom 2:24 And from the same root one may everywhere see this same fruit produced. Thus Abel was slain; thus David, with many other just men, was like to have been so; from this also the Je…
1. They who come to the divine preaching and give heed to the faith, must manifest the desire of thirsty men for water, and kindle in themselves a similar longing; so will they be able also very carefully to retain what is said. For as thirsty men, when they have taken a bowl, eagerly drain it and then desist, so too they who hear the divine oracles if they receive them thirsti…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210208.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 3:7 — But 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 glo
  • Gal 3:10 — For 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.
  • Gal 3:19 — Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
  • John 1:17 — For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
  • John 1:45 — Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
  • John 3:17 — For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
  • John 9:28 — Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses’ disciples.
  • John 12:48 — He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
  • Luke 24:27 — And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
  • Mark 9:4 — And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.
  • Ps 103:7 — He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
  • Rom 2:12 — For 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 2:17 — Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
  • Rom 2:23 — Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
  • Rom 3:19 — Now 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.
  • Rom 10:5 — For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.