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

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you, 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 Jehovah, but they shall not come near. Neither shall the people go up with him.

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

You shall not respect persons in judgment. 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 to 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 Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received the living words to give to us,

Why then the Law? It was added because of transgressions, until the Seed should come to those to whom it had been promised, being ordained through angels in the Mediator's hand.

For He 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 sinned without Law will also perish without Law. And as many as have sinned within Law shall be judged through Law.

as it is written: "There is none righteous, no not one;

For they themselves, having been circumcised, do not even keep the Law, but they desire you to be circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.

Why

Then some of those from Jerusalem said, Is this not the one they seek to kill?

And therefore the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill 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 they took counsel together that they might kill Him.

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate on a vain thing?

Then the Pharisees went out and held council against Him, as to how they might destroy Him.

But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and get hold of his inheritance.

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