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

For the Law was given through Moses, but grace [the unearned, undeserved favor of God] and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Do not think that I [am the One who] will accuse you before the Father. There [already] is one who accuses you: Moses, [the very one] in whom you have placed your hope [for salvation].

And [at that remark] they stormed at him and jeered, “You are His disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!

Moses alone shall approach the Lord, but the others shall not come near, nor shall the people come up with him.”

“Moses commanded us with a law,
As a possession for the assembly of Jacob.

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear and pay attention to the [cases of the] least [important] as well as the great. You shall not fear man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you [to judge], you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’

This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness together with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and who was with our fathers; and he received living oracles [divine words that still live] to be handed down to you.

Why, then, the Law [what was its purpose]? It was added [after the promise to Abraham, to reveal to people their guilt] because of transgressions [that is, to make people conscious of the sinfulness of sin], and [the Law] was ordained through angels and delivered to Israel by the hand of a mediator [Moses, the mediator between God and Israel, to be in effect] until the Seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

Yet Jesus has been considered worthy of much greater glory and honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house.

Yet

saying: “The scribes and Pharisees have seated themselves in Moses’ chair [of authority as teachers of the Law];

For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without [regard to] the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged and condemned by the Law.

As it is written and forever remains written,

“There is none righteous [none that meets God’s standard], not even one.

For even the circumcised [Jews] themselves do not [really] keep the Law, but they want to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh [that is, in the fact that they convinced you to be circumcised].

Why

Then some of the people of Jerusalem said, “Is this not the Man they want to kill?

For this reason the Jews began to persecute Jesus continually because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

Again the Jews picked up stones to stone Him.

So from that day on they planned together to kill Him.

Why are the nations in an uproar [in turmoil against God],
And why do the people devise a vain and hopeless plot?

But the Pharisees went out and conspired against Him, discussing how they could destroy Him.

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This [man] is the heir; come on, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’

He asked them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save a life or to kill?” But they kept silent.