John 7:19 “Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are…”

John 7:19

Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

World English Bible

Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”

American Standard Version

Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?

Geneva Bible 1599

Did not Moses giue you a Law, and yet none of you keepeth the lawe? Why goe ye about to kill me?

Darby Translation

Has not Moses given you the law, and no one of you practises the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?

Young's Literal Translation

hath not Moses given you the law? and none of you doth the law; why me do ye seek to kill?'

Bible in Basic English

Did not Moses give you the law? Even so, not one of you keeps the law. Why have you a desire to put me to death?

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Cross references

“not”

John 1:17 Deuteronomy 33:4 Deuteronomy 1:17 John 5:45 Acts 7:38 Galatians 3:19

John 1:17 · BSB

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Deuteronomy 33:4 · BSB

the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.

Deuteronomy 1:17 · BSB

Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.”

John 5:45 · BSB

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.

Acts 7:38 · BSB

He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.

Galatians 3:19 · BSB

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.

“yet”

Galatians 6:13 Matthew 23:2–4 Romans 2:17–29 Romans 3:10–23 Romans 2:12 Romans 2:13

Galatians 6:13 · BSB

For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

Matthew 23:2–4 · BSB

“The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.

Romans 2:17–29 · BSB

Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;

Romans 3:10–23 · BSB

As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.

Romans 2:12 · BSB

All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.

Romans 2:13 · BSB

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.

“Why”

John 11:53 Matthew 12:14 John 7:25 John 5:16 John 5:18 John 10:39

John 11:53 · BSB

So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

Matthew 12:14 · BSB

But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.

John 7:25 · BSB

Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?

John 5:16 · BSB

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him.

John 5:18 · BSB

Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

John 10:39 · BSB

At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp.

Also

John 7:1

John 7:1 · BSB

After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood.

20“You have a demon,” the crowd replied. “Who is trying to kill You?”

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