John 7:19

Jesus reminds them that though Moses gave the law, none of them keeps it, then asks why they seek to kill Him. Their murderous intent exposes their own lawbreaking.

Cross-references · 26

• John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
• John 7:1After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
• Matt 12:14But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.
• John 11:53So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
• Exod 24:2–3Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near. The people shall not go up with him.”
• Deut 33:4Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
• Deut 1:17You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”
• Gal 6:13For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.
• John 10:39They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.
• John 10:31–32Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.
• Matt 21:38But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’
• John 5:18For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
• Ps 2:1–6Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
• Rom 3:10–23As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.
• Acts 7:38This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
• John 7:25Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?
• Heb 3:3–5For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.
• Mark 3:4He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?” But they were silent.
• Gal 3:19What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
• John 5:45“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
• John 5:16For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
• Matt 23:2–4saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat.
• John 9:28–29They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
• Mark 3:6The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
• Rom 2:12–13For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
• Rom 2:17–29Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

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