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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - John 5:47 - 5:47
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If ye believe not - (See Luk 16:31).
his writings ... my words - a remarkable contrast, not absolutely exalting Old Testament Scripture above His own words, but pointing to the office of those venerable documents to prepare Christ’s way, to the necessity universally felt for documentary testimony in revealed religion, and perhaps (as Stier adds) to the relation which the comparative “letter” of the Old Testament holds to the more flowing “words” of “spirit and life” which characterize the New Testament.