John 19:7

Good News Translation

The crowd answered back, “We have a law that says he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”

Cross References

Isaiah 53:4

“But he endured the suffering that should have been ours, the pain that we should have borne. All the while we thought that his suffering was punishment sent by God.

Leviticus 24:16

and be put to death. Any Israelite or any foreigner living in Israel who curses the Lord shall be stoned to death by the whole community.

Mark 15:39

The army officer who was standing there in front of the cross saw how Jesus had died. “This man was really the Son of God!” he said.

John 19:8

When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid.

John 5:18

This saying made the Jewish authorities all the more determined to kill him; not only had he broken the Sabbath law, but he had said that God was his own Father and in this way had made himself equal with God.

Acts 18:13

“This man,” they said, “is trying to persuade people to worship God in a way that is against the law!”

Romans 1:4

as to his divine holiness, he was shown with great power to be the Son of God by being raised from death.

Deuteronomy 18:20

But if any prophet dares to speak a message in my name when I did not command him to do so, he must die for it, and so must any prophet who speaks in the name of other gods.’