John 7:19

Did not Moses give you the law? Yet no one of you observeth the law.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 that speaketh according to the pleasure of his own mind, seeketh glory for himself: but he who seeketh the glory of him that sent him, is veracious, and evil is not in his heart.

20Why do ye seek to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a demon: who seeketh to kill thee?

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Cross References

Matthew 12:14And the Pharisees went out and held a consultation against him, that they might destroy him.

Matthew 23:2and said to them: The Scribes and Pharisees sit in the seat of Moses.

Mark 3:6And the Pharisees went out, that very hour, with the domestics of Herod, and held a consultation against him, how they might destroy him.

John 5:16And for this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him; because he had done 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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