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 by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

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

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

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

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

You shall not respect persons in judgment; but you shall hear the small as well as the great; you 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, that 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 living oracles to give unto us:

Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the descendant 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, because he who has built the house has more honor than the house.

Yet

Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit 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 none 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 said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?

And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

Then from that day forth they took counsel together to put him to death.

Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.

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

And he said unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.