Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
Bible References
Not
John 1:17
For the Law was given through Moses, love and truth came through Jesus Christ.
John 5:45
Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; your accuser is Moses, on whom you have been resting your hopes.
John 9:28
"You are his disciple," they retorted scornfully; "but we are disciples of Moses.
Acts 7:38
He, too, it was who was present at the assembly in the Desert, with the angel who talked to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and who received living truths to impart to you.
Galatians 3:19
What, then, you ask, was the use of the Law? It was a later addition, to make men conscious of their wrong-doings, and intended to last only till the coming of that 'offspring' to whom the promise had been made; and it was delivered through angels by a mediator.
Hebrews 3:3
He has been deemed worthy of far higher honour than Moses, just as the founder of the House is held in greater regard than the House itself.
Yet
Matthew 23:2
"The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees now occupy the chair of Moses.
Romans 2:12
All who, when they sin, are without Law will also perish without Law; while all who, when they sin, are under Law, will be judged as being under Law.
Romans 3:10
As Scripture says-'There is not even one who is righteous,
Galatians 6:13
Even these men who are circumcised do not themselves keep the Law; yet they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast of your observance of the rite.
Why
John 7:25
At this some of the people of Jerusalem exclaimed: "Is not this the man that they are seeking to put to death?
John 5:16
And that was why the Jews began to persecute Jesus--because he did things of this kind on the Sabbath.
John 10:31
The Jews again brought stones to throw at him;
John 11:53
So from that day they plotted to put Jesus to death.
Matthew 12:14
On coming out, the Pharisees plotted against Jesus, to put him to death.
Matthew 21:38
But the tenants, on seeing his son, said to each other 'Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and get his inheritance.'
Mark 3:4
And to the people he said: "Is it allowable to do good on the Sabbath--or harm? to save a life, or destroy it?"