Today, in self-defense of Jesus to the Jews, appears one of the Fourth Gospel’s peculiarities: John refers entirely on the Old Testament. “[Moses] wrote about me” (Jn 5:46), Jesus says to His opponents; Philip told Nathanael: “We have found the one whom Moses wrote about in the book of the Law and the Prophets” (Jn 1:45).

The relationship between Jesus and Moses appears programmatically, especially at the end of the Preface: “God gave the Law through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (Jn 1:16-18). The prophecy —the great promise— of Moses (“God will raise up a prophet like me; you shall listen to him”) has been more than fulfilled in an overflowing way just the way God is accustomed to give.

—Who has come is more than Moses, is more than a prophet. He is the Son and now the Son Himself will be “raised”. It became apparent the signs of grace and truth, not as destruction, but as an observance of the Law.