Robertson Word Pictures - John 5:47 - 5:47

Online Resource Library

Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com

Robertson Word Pictures - John 5:47 - 5:47


(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)

This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

His writings (tois ekeinou grammasin). Dative case with pistuete. See Luk 16:31 for a like argument. The authority of Moses was the greatest of all for Jews. There is a contrast also between

writings (grammasin, from graphō, to write) and

words (rēmasin, from eipon). Gramma may mean the mere letter as opposed to spirit (2Co 3:6; Rom 2:27, Rom 2:29; Rom 7:6), a debtor’s bond (Luk 16:6.), letters or learning (Joh 7:15; Act 26:24) like agrammatoi for unlearned (Act 4:13), merely written characters (Luk 23:38; 2Co 3:7; Gal 6:11), official communications (Act 28:21), once hiera grammata for the sacred writings (2Ti 3:15) instead of the more usual hai hagiai graphai. Graphē is used also for a single passage (Mar 12:10), but biblion for a book or roll (Luk 4:17) or biblos (Luk 20:42). Jesus clearly states the fact that Moses wrote portions of the Old Testament, what portions he does not say. See also Luk 24:27, Luk 24:44 for the same idea. There was no answer from the rabbis to this conclusion of Christ. The scribes (hoi grammateis) made copies according to the letter (kata to gramma).