John 19:7

The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to the law, he ought to die, for he has made himself the Son of God.”

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In The King James Version

The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

In Context

6Therefore, when the high priests and the attendants had seen him, they cried out, saying: “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them: “Take him yourselves and crucify him. For I find no case against him.”

8Therefore, when Pilate had heard this word, he was more fearful.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 18:20But if a prophet, having been corrupted by arrogance, chooses to speak, in my name, things which I did not instruct him to say, or to speak in the name of foreign gods, he shall be put to death.

Matthew 27:42“He saved others; he cannot save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him descend now from the cross, and we will believe in him.

Mark 15:39Then the centurion who stood opposite him, seeing that he had expired while crying out in this way, said: “Truly, this man was the Son of God.”

John 8:58Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was made, I am.”

John 10:36why do you say, about him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You have blasphemed,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’

Matthew Henry on John 19:2-16

Christ Arraigned before Pilate. 1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, 3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands. 4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. 5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the… Read the whole commentary →

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