John 7:19

"Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?"

Montgomery 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

18"The man who speaks on his own authority is always seeking his own glory. But one who is eager for the glory of Him who sent him, he is true, and therefore is nothing false about him.

20The crowd answered. "You have a demon! Who is trying kill you?"

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Cross References

Matthew 12:14The man stretched it out, and it had become sound like the other. But when the Pharisees came out, they consulted together how they might destroy him.

Matthew 23:2"The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat;

Mark 3:6As soon as they came out, the Pharisees plotted against him with the Herodians, in order to destroy him.

John 5:16and because of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he had done it 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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