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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Yet

Why

Bible References

Not

For the law was given through Moses, but the grace and the truth of God came through Jesus, the Christ.

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one that accuses you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.

Then they reviled him and said, Be thou his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

And Moses alone shall approach the LORD, but they shall not come near; neither shall the people go up with him.

Moses commanded us law as inheritance unto the congregation of Jacob.

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment, but 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 cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

This is he, who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him in the Mount Sinai and with our fathers, who received the oracles of life to give unto us;

For what then serves the law? It was added because of rebellions until the seed should come to whom the promise was made, and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honour than the house.

Yet

saying, The scribes and the Pharisees have sat down in Moses' seat;

For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law

as it is written, There is no one righteous, no, not one;

For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law, but desire to have you circumcised that they may glory in your flesh.

Why

Then one of those of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

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

Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

So that from that day forth they took counsel together to kill him.

Why do the Gentiles rage, and the peoples imagine a vain thing?

Then the Pharisees went out and took council against him that they might destroy him.

But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us take his inheritance.

And he said unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days or to do evil? to save the person or to kill them? But they were silent.