Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                 Chapter Five

                                                                                                                                      Verses 39-47 continued

Jesus rebuked these unbelievers because they had seen the love and compassion that their Father had for them in the miracles that Jesus did, and yet, they refused to believe in Jesus as their God and Savior. Jesus exposed their evil natures to them when He told them that they will often believe in fake teachers and ignore their true God. To this day, humans will often readily honor crackpot, religious leaders instead of returning to faith in Christ their Savior.

Jesus informed these unbelievers that He would not accuse them to His Father. Jesus' statement agreed with His teaching that He would not judge the world while He was in the world. John 12:46-47. Jesus took the judgment of the whole world on Himself on a cross while He was in the world, and He reserved His final judgments to the end of the world. John 12:31-32; Hebrews 2:9. Jesus did this so He could judge by the use of His fiery wrath against evil in order to dissolve all human systems and separate the spiritual deaths of all living humans from their repentant, spiritual lives that He had created and loves. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13. Jesus came to utterly destroy all of the evil works of the Devil, not living humans whom He creates and loves. I John 3:8; John 12:31-32.

But Jesus did inform these unbelievers that Moses would accuse them to His Father. Evidently, when God resurrects them, Moses will rebuke these unbelievers before God because they failed to believe Moses' prophecy that Jesus would be their Messiah and Savior. Jesus lightly rebuked these unbelievers because they did not believe Moses' writings about Him. Deuteronomy 18:15-19.