John 7:19

Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you seeking to kill me?”

Text-Critical English NT

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 on his own authority seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

20The crowd answered, “Yoʋ have a demon! Who is seeking to kill yoʋ?”

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Cross References

Matthew 12:14But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against Jesus as to how they might destroy him.

Matthew 23:2“The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat.

Mark 3:6Then the Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against Jesus as to how they might destroy him.

John 5:16So the Jews began persecuting Jesus and seeking to kill him, because he was doing 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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