John 7:19
Was not it Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys it! Why are you seeking to put me to death?”
Open English Bible (US)
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
20“You must be possessed by a demon!” the people exclaimed. “Who is seeking to put you to death?”
Cross References
Matthew 12:14On coming out, the Pharisees plotted against Jesus, to put him to death.
Matthew 23:2“The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees now occupy the chair of Moses.
Mark 3:6Immediately on leaving the synagogue, the Pharisees and the Herodians united in laying a plot against Jesus, to put him to death.
John 5:16And that was why they began to persecute Jesus – because he did things of this kind 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 →