John 5:46
“For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.”
What does John 5:46 mean?
Jesus is saying that Moses and his writings point directly to him, so if people truly trusted what Moses taught, they would recognize Jesus as the fulfillment of those promises. He's not claiming to contradict Moses, but rather suggesting that Moses himself testified to Jesus' coming. When Jesus says "he wrote about me," he's likely referring to passages in the Torah that believers understood as messianic prophecies, or the broader pattern of God's redemptive work throughout Israel's story. This is an invitation to see the whole arc of Scripture as one coherent story centered on him, and to recognize that faith in the God of Moses naturally leads to faith in Jesus.