John 5:45

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μὴ δοκεῖτε ὅτι ἐγὼ κατηγορήσω ὑμῶν πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα: ἔστιν ὁ κατηγορῶν ὑμῶν, Μωσῆς, εἰς ὃν ὑμεῖς ἠλπίκατε.

Transliteration

Not dokeite that I katēgorēsō of you pros the Patera: estin the one katēgorōn of you, Mōsēs, in whom you ēlpikate.

Grammar Details

• *Mē*: negative particle - not
• *dokeite*: present active imperative, 2nd plural of *dokeō* - think/suppose
• *egō*: personal pronoun, nominative, 1st singular - I
• *katēgorēsō*: future active indicative, 1st singular of *katēgoreō* - will accuse
• *hymōn*: personal pronoun, genitive, 2nd plural - of you
• *pros*: preposition with accusative - to/before
• *Patera*: noun, accusative, masculine, singular - Father
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd singular of *eimi* - is/there is
• *katēgorōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - accusing
• *Mōsēs*: noun, nominative, masculine, singular - Moses
• *eis*: preposition with accusative - in/on
• *hon*: relative pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular - whom
• *ēlpikate*: perfect active indicative, 2nd plural of *elpizō* - you have hoped

Word Meanings

• *dokeite*: think/suppose/imagine
• *katēgorēsō*: will accuse/will bring charges against
• *katēgorōn*: accusing/bringing charges
• *ēlpikate*: you have hoped/you have set your hope/you have trusted

Referenced Verses

• Rom 2:17-29 : 17 The Condemnation of the Jew But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God 18 and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law, 19 and if you are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth– 21 therefore you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? 22 You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law! 24 For just as it is written,“the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” 25 For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? 27 The physically uncircumcised man, by keeping the law, will judge you to be the transgressor of the law, even though you have the letter and circumcision! 28 For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh, 29 but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the letter. This person’s praise is not from people but from God.
• Rom 3:19-20 : 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20 For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
• John 9:28-29 : 28 They heaped insults on him, saying,“You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses! 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!”
• Rom 2:12 : 12 For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
• Rom 7:9-9 : 9 And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive 10 and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death! 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died. 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good. 13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.
• Rom 10:5-9 : 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law:“The one who does these things will live by them.” 6 But the righteousness that is by faith says:“Do not say in your heart,‘Who will ascend into heaven?’”(that is, to bring Christ down) 7 or“Who will descend into the abyss?”(that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say?“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”(that is, the word of faith that we preach), 9 because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.
• 2 Cor 3:7-9 : 7 The Greater Glory of the Spirit’s Ministry But if the ministry that produced death– carved in letters on stone tablets– came with glory, so that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face(a glory which was made ineffective), 8 how much more glorious will the ministry of the Spirit be? 9 For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory! 10 For indeed, what had been glorious now has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it. 11 For if what was made ineffective came with glory, how much more has what remains come in glory!
• Gal 3:10 : 10 For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”
• Matt 19:7-8 : 7 They said to him,“Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?” 8 Jesus said to them,“Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way.
• John 7:19 : 19 Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”
• John 8:5-6 : 5 In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death such women. What then do you say?” 6 (Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
• John 8:9 : 9 Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.