John 5:46

5:46 If ¹  you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

John 7:48

7:48 None of the rulers ²  or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they? ³ 

John 8:30

8:30 While he was saying these things, many people ⁴  believed in him.

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¹ tn Grk “For if.”

² sn The chief priests and Pharisees (John 7:45) is a comprehensive term for the groups represented in the ruling council (the Sanhedrin) as in John 7:45; 18:3; Acts 5:22, 26. Likewise the term ruler here denotes a member of the Sanhedrin, the highest legal, legislative, and judicial body among the Jews. Note the same word (“ruler”) is used to describe Nicodemus in John 3:1, and Nicodemus also speaks up in this episode (John 7:50).

³ tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here the tag is “have they?”).

⁴ tn The word “people” is not in the Greek text, but is supplied for clarity and smoothness in the translation.