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 by Moses; grace and truth were by Jesus Christ.

Think not that I shall accuse you to the Father: he accusing you is Moses, in whom ye have hoped.

Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.

And Moses alone drawing near to Jehovah: and they shall not draw near; and the people shall not go up with him.

Moses commanded a law for us, the inheritance of the gathering of Jacob.

Ye shall not look upon faces in judgment; as the small so the great shall ye hear; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is to God; and the word which shall be hard for you, ye shall bring to me and I heard it

This is he having been in the church in the desert with the messenger speaking to him in Mount Sina, and our fathers: who received the living oracles to give to us:

What then the law? It was added on account of transgressions, (till the seed come to whom it was promised;) appointed by angels in the hand of a mediator.

For this was deemed worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he has greater honour of the house having built it.

Yet

Saying, Upon Moses' seat sat the scribes and Pharisees.

For as many as sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

As has been written, That there is no just one, not one:

For neither they being circumcised themselves observe the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they might boast in your flesh.

Why

Then said some of the Jerusalemites' Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?

And therefore the Jews drove out Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these in the sabbath.

Then again lifted up the Jews stones that they might stone him.

Then from that day they counselled together that they might kill him.

Wherefore did the nations rage, and the peoples will meditate emptiness?

And the Pharisees took counsel against him, having gone out, that they might kill him.

And the farmers, 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 in the sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? to save a soul, or to kill? And they were silent.