KJV 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?
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John 7:19
Did not Moses give you the law, and [yet] none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
WEB World English Bible
Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
ASV American Standard Version
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
hath not Moses given you the law? and none of you doth the law; why me do ye seek to kill?’
Surrounding context — John 7
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 no unrighteousness is in him.
19 Did not Moses give you the law, and [yet] none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
20 The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
21 Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.
22 Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
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οὐG3756 · ounoΜωϋσῆςG3475 · Mōusēs, MōsēsMosesδέδωκενG1325 · didōmito giveὑμῖνG4771 · suyouτὸνG3588 · hothe/this/whoνόμον;G3551 · nomoslawκαὶG2532 · kaiandοὐδεὶςG3762 · oudeisnoneἐξG1537 · ekout fromὑμῶνG4771 · suyouποιεῖG4160 · poieōto do/make: doτὸνG3588 · hothe/this/whoνόμον·G3551 · nomoslawτίG5101 · tiswhich?μεG3165 · memeζητεῖτεG2212 · zēteōto seekἀποκτεῖναι;G615 · apokteinōto kill
Cross-references
John 1:17For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.John 7:1After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.John 11:53Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.Matthew 12:14Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.Galatians 6:13For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.Deuteronomy 1:17Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; [but] ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment [is] God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring [it] unto me, and I will hear it.Deuteronomy 33:4Moses commanded us a law, [even] the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.Exodus 24:2-3And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.John 7:25Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?Romans 3:10-23As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:Psalm 2:1-6Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?John 9:28-29Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses’ disciples.John 10:31-32Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.Matthew 21:38But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.Matthew 23:2-4Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat:Romans 2:12-13For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;John 5:16And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.John 5:18Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
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