the Scriptures better than the Christians did (compare John 5:39; 9:28–29). But John claims that the same Word of God we confront in the Scriptures has stepped into human history in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. John thus counters the claims of the Christians’ enemies, who emphasized their own zeal for God’s law: Those who claim to know God’s law but reject Jesus reject the true message of the Word itself (5:45–47). By alluding to the Old Testament story of Moses on Mount Sinai, John shows how
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