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

Mark 3:4

Bible References

Not

For the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

"Do not imagine that I shall accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser, on whom you build your hopes.

Then they stormed at him. "You are his disciple. We are Moses' disciples.

"This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness along with the angel who spoke to him in Mt. Sinai, and with our ancestors to whom he gave living words to hand down to us.

To what purpose, then, was the Law? It was imposed later for the sake of transgressions, until the "Offspring" should come to whom the promise had been made. It was arranged through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built a house has higher honor than the house itself.

Yet

"The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses' seat;

For all who have sinned without law will also perish without law; and all who have sinned under law will be judged by law.

As it is written. There is none righteous, no, not one;

Even those who are being circumcised, are not themselves keeping the Law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may glory in your flesh.

Why

Then some of the men of Jerusalem were saying. "Is not this the man they are seeking to kill?

and because of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he had done it on the Sabbath.

The Jews again took stones with which to stone him. Jesus said to them.

So from that day they plotted to kill him.

The man stretched it out, and it had become sound like the other. But when the Pharisees came out, they consulted together how they might destroy him.

But when the vine-dressers saw his son, they said to themselves: "'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and take his inheritance.'

Then he asked them. "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath Day, or to do harm? to save a life, or to destroy it?"