John 7:19

Did not Moses give you the law? and not one of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The 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?

In Context

18He who speaks of himself, seeks his own glory; he who seeks the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

20The multitude answered and said: You have a demon: who seeks to kill you?

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Cross References

Matthew 12:14But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against him, that they might destroy him.

Matthew 23:2saying: The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses seat:

Mark 3:6And the Pharisees immediately went out with the Herodians, and held a consultation against him, that they might destroy him.

John 5:16And for this reason did the Jews persecute Jesus, and seek to kill him, because he had done these things on the sabbath.

Matthew Henry on John 7:15-37

Christ at the Feast of Tabernacles. 14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. 15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? 16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and… Read the whole commentary →

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