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; grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father! The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have put your hope!

They reviled him and said, "You are his disciple! But we are disciples of Moses!

And Moses {alone} will come near to Yahweh, and they will not come near, and the people will not go up with him."

A law Moses instructed for us, [as a] possession [for] the assembly of Jacob.

You must not {be partial} {in your judgment}; hear [out] the small [person] as [also] the great [person]; {do not be intimidated by any person}, because the judgment [is] God's; and the case that is too difficult for you, bring [it] to me, and I will hear it [out].'

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

Why then the law? It was added on account of transgressions, until the descendant should come to whom it had been promised, having been ordered through angels by the hand of a mediator.

For this one is considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the one who builds it has greater honor than the house.

Yet

saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees sit on the seat of Moses.

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

just as it is written, "[There] is no one righteous, not even one;

For not even those who are circumcised observe the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised in order that they may boast in your flesh.

Why

Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say, "Is this not [the one] whom they are seeking to kill?

And on account of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he was doing these [things] on the Sabbath.

Then the Jews picked up stones again so that they could stone him.

So from that day they resolved that they should kill him.

Why are nations in tumult, and countries plotting in vain?

But the Pharisees went out {and plotted} against him in order that they could destroy him.

But [when] the tenant farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance!'

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