American Standard Version
John 7:19
19Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?
John 7:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
- New International Version (NIV)Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”
- English Standard Version (ESV)Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?"
- New King James Version (NKJV)Did not Moses give you the law, yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill Me?”
Context of John 7:19
17If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself. 18He that speaketh from himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me? 20The multitude answered, Thou hast a demon: who seeketh to kill thee? 21Jesus answered and said unto them, I did one work, and ye all marvel because thereof.
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οὐ Μωϋσῆς δέδωκεν ὑμῖν τὸν νόμον; καὶ οὐδεὶς ἐξ ὑμῶν ποιεῖ τὸν νόμον· τί με ζητεῖτε ἀποκτεῖναι;Read the interlinear
Cross-references for John 7:19
- John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
- John 5:45Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, on whom ye have set your hope.
- John 9:28And they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are disciples of Moses.
- Exodus 24:2and Moses alone shall come near unto Jehovah; but they shall not come near; neither shall the people go up with him.
- Deuteronomy 33:4Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 1:17Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it.
- Acts 7:38This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel that spake to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received living oracles to give unto us:
- Galatians 3:19What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; and it was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
- Hebrews 3:3For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honor than the house.
- Matthew 23:2saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat:
- Romans 2:12For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;
- Romans 3:10as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;
- Galatians 6:13For not even they who receive circumcision do themselves keep the law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
- John 7:25Some therefore of them of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?
- John 5:16And for this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.
- John 10:31The Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Commentaries on John 7:19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19Did not Moses give you the law, etc. - The scribes and Pharisees announced our Lord to the multitude as a deceiver; and they grounded their calumny on this, that he was not an exact observer of the law, for he had healed a man on the Sabbath day, John 5:9, John 5:10; and consequently must be a false prophet. Now they insinuated, that the interests of religion required him to be put to death: As a violator of the law; and, as a false prophet and deceiver…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19Did not Moses give you the law? - This they admitted, and on this they prided themselves. Every violation of that law they considered as deserving of death. They had accused Jesus of violating it because he had healed a man on the Sabbath, and for that they had sought his life, John 5:10-16. He here recalls that charge to their recollection, and shows them that, though they pretended great reverence for that law, yet they were really its violators in…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-24Verses 14-24 Every faithful minister may humbly adopt Christ's words. His doctrine is not his own finding out, but is from God's word, through the teaching of his Spirit. And amidst the disputes which disturb the world, if any man, of any nation, seeks to do the will of God, he shall know whether the doctrine is of God, or whether men speak of themselves. Only those who hate the truth shall be given up to errors which will be fatal. Surely it was as…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it: The Jewish leaders were proud of the law of Moses. They believed they carefully obeyed it. However, Jesus pointed out a serious problem. While they honored the law in words, they were planning to kill him. In doing so, they were breaking the law (Exodus 20:13).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 19-2019-20. Did not Moses, &c.--that is, In opposing Me ye pretend zeal for Moses, but to the spirit and end of that law which he gave ye are total strangers, and in "going about to kill Me" ye are its greatest enemies.Read the comment
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Commentaries on John 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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