John 7:19

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Summary

John 7:19

Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

Not

Yet

Why

Bible References

Not

The law came through Moses. Loving-kindness and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Moses on whom you have set your hope is a plaintiff against you.

Then they spoke abusively to him: You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses.

Moses alone may come near Jehovah. The others may not. The people must not come along with Moses.

Moses commanded us with a law (these teachings), a heritage of the assembly of Jacob.

You will not show partiality in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great. You will not fear man for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.'

This one was with our father in the congregation in the wilderness. The angel spoke to him on Mount Sinai. He received the living oracles to give to us.

What then is the law? It was added (to cause awareness of sin) because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses. This is because the builder of the house has more honor than the house.

Yet

The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, he said.

For all who have sinned without law will perish without law. All who have sinned under law will be judged under law.

The Scriptures say: There is no one who is righteous,

For not even those who receive circumcision obey the Law. They desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

Why

Some in Jerusalem asked: Is this he whom they seek to kill?

The Jews persecuted Jesus because he did these things on the Sabbath.

The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.

So from that day forth they took counsel that they might put him to death.

Why do the nations conspire together and rage? Why do the peoples plot in vain?

The Pharisees left and took counsel against him, to decide how they might destroy him.

When the workmen saw the son, they said, 'Let us put him to death and take his heritage, for someday he will own this property.'

Then he asked the Pharisees, Is it right to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil? Is it right to give life or to put to death? But they said nothing.