The Christian scriptures showed Jesus himself recognised Moses as the author of at least some portions of the Pentateuch (e.g., the Gospel of John, verses 5:46–47), and the early Christians therefore followed the rabbis.[32][33] Like them, they addressed those passages which seemed to cast doubt on the Mosaic tradition: Saint Jerome, for example, felt that "unto this day" implied an author long after the time of Moses, presumably the 5th century BCE sage Ezra.[34] Martin Luther similarly concluded that the description of Moses' death was by Joshua – but believed that the question itself was of no great importance.[35]