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

Because the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came to be through Jesus Christ.

Think not that I will accuse you to the Father. The man who accuses you is Moses, in whom ye have hoped.

They reviled him, and said, Thou are a disciple of that man, but we are disciples of Moses.

And Moses alone shall come near to LORD, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him.

Moses commanded for us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment. Ye shall hear the small and the great alike. Ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you ye shall bring to me, and I will hea

This is he who became in the congregation in the wilderness with the heavenly agent who spoke to him on the mount Sinai, and of our fathers who received living oracles to give to us.

Why then the law? It was added on account of transgressions, until the seed would come to whom it was promised, which was arranged through heavenly agents in the hand of a mediator.

For this man was considered worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he who built it has more esteem than the house.

Yet

The scholars and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat.

For as many as have sinned without law will also be destroyed without law, and as many as have sinned in law will be judged by law.

as it is written, There is no righteous man, not even one.

For not even those who have been circumcised themselves keep law, but they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast in thy flesh.

Why

Therefore some of the Jerusalemites said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

And because of this the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on a Sabbath.

Therefore again the Jews took up stones so that they might stone him.

So from that day they consulted together so that they might kill him.

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate vain {things (LXX/NT)}?

But when they went out, the Pharisees held a consultation against him, how they might destroy him.

But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, let us kill him, and possess his inheritance.

And he says to them, Is it permitted to do good on the Sabbath day or to do harm, to save life or to kill? But they were silent.