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 while the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah.

Do not suppose that I will be the one to accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope,

At this, they turned on him in fury and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!

Only Moses is to approach the LORD, but the others are not to approach; the people are not to come up with him."

Moses commanded with the Law, an inheritance for the community of Jacob.

When you hold a hearing, don't be partial in judgment toward the least important or toward the great. Never fear men, because judgment belongs to God. If the matter is difficult for you, bring it to me for a hearing.'

This Moses is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and to our ancestors. He received living truths to give to us,

Why, then, was the Law added? Because of transgressions, until the descendant came about whom the promise pertained. It was put into effect through angels by means of a mediator.

because he is worthy of greater glory than Moses in the same way that the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.

Yet

"The scribes and the Pharisees administer the authority of Moses,

For all who have sinned apart from the Law will also perish apart from the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law.

As it is written, "Not even one person is righteous.

Why, not even those who are circumcised obey the Law! They simply want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your external appearance.

Why

Then some of the people of Jerusalem began saying, "This is the man they are trying to kill, isn't it?

So the Jewish leaders began persecuting Jesus, because he kept doing such things on the Sabbath.

Again the Jewish leaders picked up stones to stone him to death.

So from that day on they resolved to put him to death.

Why are the nations in an uproar, and their people involved in a vain plot?

The Pharisees, however, went out and plotted against Jesus to kill him.

But when the tenant farmers saw his son, they told one another, "This is the heir. Come on, let's kill him and get his inheritance!'

Then he asked them, "Is it lawful to do good or to do evil on Sabbath days, to save a life or to destroy it?" But they remained silent.