John 7:19

The Passion Translation

Moses has given you the law, but not one of you is faithful to keep it. So if you are all law-breakers, why then would you seek to kill me?”

Cross References

Matthew 12:14

Immediately the Pharisees went out and started to scheme about how they would destroy him.

Matthew 21:38

But when the tenants saw the son, they said, ‘This is the heir! Let’s kill him and then we can have his inheritance!’

Mark 11:18

When the chief priests and religious scholars heard this, they began to hatch a plot as to how they could eliminate Jesus. But they feared him and his influence, because the entire crowd was totally captivated by his teaching.

Mark 3:4

Then he turned to all those gathered there and said, “Is it against the law to do evil on the Sabbath or to do good? To destroy a life or to save one?” But no one answered him a word.

Mark 3:6

After this happened, the Pharisees left abruptly and began to plot together with the friends and supporters of Herod Antipas on how they would kill Jesus.

John 1:17

Moses gave us the Law, but Jesus, the Anointed One, unveils truth wrapped in tender mercy.

John 10:39

Once again they attempted to seize him, but he escaped miraculously from their clutches.

John 11:53

So from that day on, they were committed to killing Jesus.

John 5:16

From that day forward the Jewish leaders began to persecute Jesus because of the things he did on the Sabbath.

John 5:18

This infuriated them and made them all the more eager to devise a plan to kill him. For not only did he break their Sabbath rules, but he also called God “my Father,” which made him equal to God.

John 5:45

“I will not accuse you before the Father. The one who will incriminate you is Moses, the very one you claim to obey, the one in whom you trust!

John 7:1

After this Jesus traveled extensively throughout the province of Galilee, but he avoided the province of Judea, for he knew the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem were plotting to have him killed.

John 7:25

Then some of the residents of Jerusalem spoke up and said, “Isn’t this the one they’re trying to kill?

Acts 7:38

“Moses led the congregation in the wilderness and he spoke face-to-face with the angel who spoke with him on the top of Mount Sinai. Along with our ancestors, he received the living oracles of God that were passed down to us.

Galatians 3:19

Why then was the law given at all? It was given alongside the promise to show people their sins. But the law was designed to last only until the coming of the “Seed,” the child who was promised. When God gave the law, he gave it first to angels; they gave it to Moses, his mediator, who then gave it to the people.

Galatians 6:13

Not even those who are circumcised keep every detail of the written law. Yet they push you to be circumcised so that they can boast that you have become like them.