"Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
Tragically, the Jews Christ addressed were trusting for salvation in the law of Moses, blissfully ignorant of the law's total ineffectiveness to save anyone.  Any person, breaking the tiniest of its regulations, was in total condemnation without recourse.  It provided no means of forgiveness, no indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and there was a continual remembrance of sin in it; and the foolish notion of the leaders of Israel that their strictness in keeping some of the law's externals could entitle them to eternal life is among the most pathetic delusions of all time.