because the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, "We have found Him of Whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote??esus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."

And, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;

Think not that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you, Moses on whom ye have set your hope.

For, if ye were believing Moses, ye would believe Me; for he wrote concerning Me.

Jesus, therefore, said to them, "Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread out of Heaven; but My Father giveth you the true bread out of Heaven;

Did not Moses give you the law? and not one of you does the law. Why are ye seeking to kill Me?"

Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man.

If a man receives circumcision on a sabbath, that the law of Moses be not broken, are ye angry with Me, because I made a whole man well on the sabbath?

Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such; what, therefore, dost Thou say?"

And they reviled him, and said, "You are His disciple; but we are disciples of Moses.

We know that God hath spoken to Moses; but, as to this Man, we know not whence He is."