John 7:19
New International Version
Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”

New Living Translation
Moses gave you the law, but none of you obeys it! In fact, you are trying to kill me.”

English Standard Version
Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”

Berean Standard Bible
Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”

Berean Literal Bible
Has not Moses given to you the Law, and none of you keeps the Law? Why do you seek to kill Me?"

King James Bible
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

New King James Version
Did not Moses give you the law, yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill Me?”

New American Standard Bible
“Did Moses not give you the Law, and yet none of you carries out the Law? Why are you seeking to kill Me?”

NASB 1995
“Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you carries out the Law? Why do you seek to kill Me?”

NASB 1977
“Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you carries out the Law? Why do you seek to kill Me?”

Legacy Standard Bible
“Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet none of you does the Law. Why do you seek to kill Me?”

Amplified Bible
“Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not one of you keeps the Law. Why do you want to kill Me [for not keeping it]?”

Christian Standard Bible
Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me? ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill Me?"”

American Standard Version
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“Was it not Moses who gave you The Written Law? Yet no one among you keeps The Written Law.”

Contemporary English Version
Didn't Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you obey it! So why do you want to kill me?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Did Moses not give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law?

English Revised Version
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Didn't Moses give you his teachings? Yet, none of you does what Moses taught you. So why do you want to kill me?"

Good News Translation
Moses gave you the Law, didn't he? But not one of you obeys the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

International Standard Version
Moses gave you the Law, didn't he? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

Literal Standard Version
has not Moses given you the Law? And none of you does the Law; why do you seek to kill Me?”

Majority Standard Bible
Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”

New American Bible
Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”

NET Bible
Hasn't Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?"

New Revised Standard Version
“Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you looking for an opportunity to kill me?”

New Heart English Bible
Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you keeps the Law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

Webster's Bible Translation
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

Weymouth New Testament
Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not a man of you obeys the Law. Why do you want to kill me?"

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?”

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?'

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Context
Jesus Teaches at the Feast
18He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood. 19Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?” 20“You have a demon,” the crowd replied. “Who is trying to kill You?”…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:4
the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.

Mark 11:18
When the chief priests and scribes heard this, they looked for a way to kill Him. For they were afraid of Him, because the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.

John 1:17
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

John 7:1
After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.


Treasury of Scripture

Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why go you about to kill me?

not.

John 1:17
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

John 5:45
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.

John 9:28,29
Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples…

yet.

Matthew 23:2-4
Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: …

Romans 2:12,13,17-29
For 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; …

Romans 3:10-23
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: …

Why.

John 7:25
Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?

John 5:16,18
And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day…

John 10:31,32,39
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him…

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John 7
1. Jesus reproves the ambition and boldness of his kinsmen;
10. goes up from Galilee to the feast of tabernacles;
14. teaches in the temple.
40. Various opinions of him among the people.
45. The Pharisees are angry that their officers took him not,
50. and chide with Nicodemus for taking his side.














(19) Did not Moses . . .?--The note of interrogation should be placed at the end of the first clause. The verse would then read, Did not Moses give you the Law? and none of you doeth the Law. Why seek ye to kill Me? So far from the will to do God's will, without which they could not know His teaching, they had the Law, which they all professed to accept, and yet no one kept it (John 5:45-47). This thought follows naturally on John 7:17-18, and, like the whole of this teaching, grows out of the truths of John 5; but it may be that this reference to Moses and the Law has a special fitness, as suggested by the feast. Moses had commanded that the Law should be read in every Sabbatical year at this very festival (Deuteronomy 31:10); and there is good reason for believing that the current year was a Sabbatical year. The first portion of the Law which it was customary to read was Deuteronomy 1:1 to Deuteronomy 6:3. Within this section (John 5:17) came the command, "Thou shalt not kill." They were, then, in their persecution of Him (John 5:18), breaking the Law, of which their presence at the feast was a professed obedience. . . . Verse 19. - Jesus was not unaware that serious charges were brought against his interpretation of the sabbatic law; that the Jews sought to kill him for his identification of his own mind and working with the Father's mind and working. On this account for a considerable time he had confined his ministry to Galilee. The old story of the sabbath healing was now rife once more, doubtless augmented with the rumors of the healing of the man with the withered hand, and other actions profoundly in harmony with the deep meaning of the sabbath rest. To the mind of the fourth evangelist; the explanation given by Christ to the authorities in Jerusalem was of prime significance in the whole sabbatic controversy; and he has recorded the defence Jesus made of his doctrine which placed him at once on the platform of the men with whom he was now beginning a life-and-death conflict. He used their methods, and, so far as the adequate grounds of connection were concerned, he was triumphant, Did not Moses give you the Law? - the whole revealed Law of God concerning moral conduct and daily ritual, a violation of the real spirit of which would be ἀδικία, and of which you accuse me - and (yet) none of you doeth the Law? Does he here call attention to the universal disobedience of mankind? Is he forestalling the declaration that "all have sinned, and come short;" that "in many things all offend"? Certainly not. He is about to show at greater length that the charge of ἀδικία stands equally against the justifiable transposition of the letter of the lower law by the incidence of a higher law. They must all know the innumerable occasions in which the letter of the law of the sabbath gave way to the law of mercy, to the law of hunger, to the exigencies of the temple services. "None of you doeth the Law," i.e. in the sense in which you are (from other motives) expecting me to do it. He said enough to strike their consciences and charge home their cherished if secret purpose. Why do ye seek to kill me? With what right, since this is the case, do ye vent your malice against me? Meyer and Godet here differ as to the emphasis laid upon the "me." The position of the enclitic με before ζητεῖτε gives it a prominence not to be overlooked. The interpretation of many - that the intention or desire to kill Jesus is the inward proof that the conscience of the Jews would admit that they were not keeping the Law which said, "Thou shalt not kill" - is very far-fetched, and weak in its force, although, according to the entire old covenant, there was much killing which was not murder. Such a reference would not correspond with the profoundly Hebrew response made by our Lord. Calvin here makes this reply of Christ a text on which to denounce, in his own day, the corruption of the papal court.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
{Has} not
Οὐ (Ou)
Adverb
Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.

Moses
Μωϋσῆς (Mōusēs)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3475: Or Moses, or Mouses of Hebrew origin; Moseus, Moses, or Mouses, the Hebrew lawgiver.

given
δέδωκεν (dedōken)
Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1325: To offer, give; I put, place. A prolonged form of a primary verb; to give.

you
ὑμῖν (hymin)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

the
τὸν (ton)
Article - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Law?
νόμον (nomon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3551: From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively.

Yet
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

not one
οὐδεὶς (oudeis)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3762: No one, none, nothing.

of
ἐξ (ex)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

you
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

keeps
ποιεῖ (poiei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do.

[it].
νόμον (nomon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3551: From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively.

Why
τί (ti)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 5101: Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.

are you trying
ζητεῖτε (zēteite)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 2212: To seek, search for, desire, require, demand. Of uncertain affinity; to seek; specially, to worship, or to plot.

to kill
ἀποκτεῖναι (apokteinai)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active
Strong's 615: To put to death, kill; fig: I abolish. From apo and kteino; to kill outright; figuratively, to destroy.

Me?”
με (me)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.


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