Serving Moses, Serving Yeshua

In John 9, there is controversy with the Pharisees because of Yeshua’s healing of the man born blind. As emotions reached a crescendo in verse 28, the Pharisees reviled him and said, “You are His disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.”

For too many people—including the Pharisees of Yeshua’s day, Rabbinic Judaism of our own day, and sadly, for many of us as well—Moses and Yeshua are placed in antithesis to one another: You are His disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. The irony is that Moses not only pointed to Yeshua but also commanded obedience to Him and warned against disregarding His claims made by early Jewish believers in their witness to Israel is one of the most overlooked claims in our evangelism today.