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?

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Why

Bible References

Not

For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth subsists through Jesus Christ.

Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one who accuses you, Moses, on whom ye trust;

They railed at him, and said, Thou art his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

And let Moses alone come near Jehovah; but they shall not come near; neither shall the people go up with him.

Moses commanded us a law, The inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment: ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's; and the matter that is too hard for you shall ye bring to me, that I may hear it.

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us;

Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, ordained through angels in the hand of a mediator.

For he has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by how much he that has built it has more honour than the house.

Yet

saying, The scribes and the Pharisees have set themselves down in Moses' seat:

For as many as have sinned without law shall perish also without law; and as many as have sinned under law shall be judged by law,

according as it is written, There is not a righteous man, not even one;

For neither do they that are circumcised themselves keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

Why

Some therefore of those of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him, because he had done these things on sabbath.

The Jews therefore again took stones that they might stone him.

From that day therefore they took counsel that they might kill him.

Why are the nations in tumultuous agitation, and why do the peoples meditate a vain thing?

But the Pharisees, having gone out, took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.

But the husbandmen, seeing 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 lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill? But they were silent.