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; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.

Put out of your minds the thought that I will say things against you to the Father: the one who says things against you is Moses, on whom you put your hopes.

And they were angry with him and said, You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

And Moses only may come near to the Lord; but the others are not to come near, and the people may not come up with them.

Moses gave us a law, a heritage for the people of Jacob.

In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing.

This is the man who was in the church in the waste land with the angel who was talking to him in Sinai, and with our fathers; and to him were given the living words of God, so that he might give them to you.

What then is the law? It was an addition made because of sin, till the coming of the seed to whom the undertaking had been given; and it was ordered through angels by the hand of a go-between.

And it was right for this man to have more honour than Moses, even as the builder of a house has more honour than the house.

Yet

The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses;

All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;

As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;

Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.

Why

Then some of the people of Jerusalem said, Is not this the man whose death is desired?

And for this reason the Jews were turned against Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

Then the Jews took up stones again to send at him.

And from that day they took thought together how to put him to death.

Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?

But the Pharisees went out and made designs against him, how they might put him to death.

But when the workmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death and take his heritage.

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