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, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

"Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.

They heaped insults on him, saying, "You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses!

Moses alone may come near the Lord, but the others must not come near, nor may the people go up with him."

Moses delivered to us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

They must not discriminate in judgment, but hear the lowly and the great alike. Nor should they be intimidated by human beings, for judgment belongs to God. If the matter being adjudicated is too difficult for them, they should bring it before me for a hearing.

This is the man who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to you.

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the descendant to whom the promise had been made. It was administered through angels by an intermediary.

For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself!

Yet

"The experts in the law and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat.

For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who 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 those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.

Why

Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say, "Isn't this the man they are trying to kill?

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.

So from that day they planned together to kill him.

Why do the nations rebel? Why are the countries devising plots that will fail?

But the Pharisees went out and plotted against him, as to how they could assassinate him.

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him and get his inheritance!'

Then he said to them, "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or evil, to save a life or destroy it?" But they were silent.