John 7:19

Think about the laws that Moses gave you [RHQ]. None of you completely obeys those laws. So why are you trying to kill me, saying I do not obey the laws concerning ◄ the Sabbath/the Jewish day of rest►?”

Translation for Translators

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

18Those who speak with only their own authority do that only so that others will honor them. But I am doing things so that others will honor the one who sent me, and I am someone who speaks the truth. I never lie.

20Someone in the crowd answered, “ By saying this you show that you are crazy (OR, A demon is controlling you)! Certainly no one is trying to kill you!”

Read all of John 7

Cross References

Exodus 24:2Moses, I will allow you alone to come near to me. The others must not come near, and the rest of the people must not come up the mountain.”

Deuteronomy 33:4I gave them laws to obey, laws that would be the most precious thing that the descendants of Jacob owned.

Matthew 12:14Then the Pharisees left the meeting house. They were worried that the people would reject their traditions and would accept Jesus’ teaching instead. So they met together to plan how they could kill him.

Matthew 23:2“ Moses was the renowned teacher who taught the people the laws that God gave him [MTY]. Now, the Pharisees and the men who teach our Jewish laws have made themselves the ones who interpret those laws [IDM].

Mark 3:6Then the Pharisees decided to get rid of Jesus. So after they left the meeting house, they immediately met with some of the Jews who supported Herod Antipas, who ruled Galilee district. Together they planned how they could kill Jesus.

John 5:16So the Jewish leaders [SYN] started to harass Jesus, because Jesus was doing these things ◄on the Sabbath/on the Jewish rest day►.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study John 7:19