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 truth came through Jesus Christ.

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

And they reviled him, saying, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

Moses alone shall come near to the LORD, but the others shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him."

when Moses commanded us a law, as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.

You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'

This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us.

Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.

For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses--as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.

Yet

"The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat,

For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one;

For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

Why

Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, "Is not this the man whom they seek to kill?

And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.

So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.

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

But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.'

And he said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?" But they were silent.