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 came through Jesus Christ.
• John 7:1After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.
• Matt 12:14But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.
• John 11:53So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.
• Exod 24:2–3Moses alone shall approach the LORD, but the others must not come near. And the people may not go up with him.”
• Deut 33:4the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.
• Deut 1:17Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.”
• Gal 6:13For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
• John 10:39At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp.
• John 10:31–32At this, the Jews again picked up stones to stone Him.
• Matt 21:38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’
• John 5:18Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
• Ps 2:1–6Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
• Rom 3:10–23As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
• Acts 7:38He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
• John 7:25Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
• Heb 3:3–5For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
• Mark 3:4And He asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?” But they were silent.
• Gal 3:19Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
• John 5:45Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.
• John 5:16Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him.
• Matt 23:2–4“The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.
• John 9:28–29Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are His disciple; we are disciples of Moses.
• Mark 3:6At this, the Pharisees went out and began plotting with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.
• Rom 2:12–13All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
• Rom 2:17–29Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;

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