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 while the law was given through Moses, spiritual blessing and truth have come through Jesus Christ.

Do not be thinking that I am going to accuse you to the Father. You have your accuser; it is Moses on whom you have set your hopes!

Then they jeered him, and said, "You are a disciple of His yourself, but we are disciples of Moses.

This is the one who in the congregation in the desert went between the angel, who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and our forefathers, who also received, to be handed down to you, utterances that still live.

Then what about the law? It was added later on to increase transgressions, until the descendant to whom the promise was made should come, enacted through the agency of angels in the person of an intermediary.

For just as the man who builds a house has greater glory than the house, by just so much is Jesus judged to be worthy of greater glory than Moses.

Yet

"The scribes and Pharisees have taken Moses' seat as teachers.

All who sin without having the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.

as the Scriptures say: "Not a single human creature is upright,

Indeed, the very men who let themselves be circumcised do not themselves observe the law. But they simply want you to let yourselves be circumcised, so that they can boast of you as members of their party.

Why

Then some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is not this the man they are trying to kill?

This is why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He persisted in doing such things on the Sabbath.

The Jews again picked up stones to stone Him.

So from that day they plotted to kill Jesus.

But the Pharisees went out and held a consultation against Him, to put Him to death.

But when the tenants saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is his heir, come on, let us kill him, and get all that is coming to him!'

Then He asked them, "Is it right to do people good on the Sabbath, or to do them evil, to save life or to take it?" But they had nothing to say.