John 7:19

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Didn’t Moses

King James Version (1611)
Did not Moses giue you the Law, and yet none of you keepeth the Law? Why goe ye about to kill me?

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?

English Standard Version
Has not Moses given 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?"

New Century Version
Moses gave you the law, but none of you obeys that law. Why are you trying 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]?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"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?"

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

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

Complete Jewish Bible
Didn't Moshe give you the Torah? Yet not one of you obeys the Torah! Why are you out to kill me?"

Darby Translation
Has not Moses given you the law, and no one of you practises the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?

Easy-to-Read Version
Moses gave you the law, right? But you don't obey that law. If you do, then why are you trying to kill me?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Did not Moses giue you a Law, and yet none of you keepeth the lawe? Why goe ye about to kill me?

George Lamsa Translation
Did not Moses give you the law? and yet no one of you obeys the law. 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?"

Lexham English Bible
Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you carries out the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

Literal Translation
Has not Moses given you the Law, and not one of you does the Law? Why do you lust 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?

Bible in Basic English
Did not Moses give you the law? Even so, not one of you keeps the law. Why have you a desire to put me to death?

Hebrew Names Version
Didn't Moshe give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek 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?"Exodus 24:3; Deuteronomy 33:4; Matthew 12:14; Mark 3:6; John 1:17; 11:53; Acts 7:38;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Did not Musha give you the law? But no man of you keepeth the law. Why seek you to kill me ?

Murdock Translation
Did not Moses give you the law? Yet no one of you observeth the law.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Dyd not Moyses geue you a lawe, & [yet] none of you kepeth the lawe? Why go ye about to kyll me?

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

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Did not Moses give you the law?

Weymouth's 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?"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether Moises yaf not to you a lawe, and noon of you doith the lawe?

Update Bible Version
Has not Moses given you the law? And [yet] none of you does 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?

New English Translation
Hasn't Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want 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 Living Translation
Moses gave you the law, but none of you obeys it! In fact, you are trying to kill me."

New Life Bible
Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not one of you keeps the Law. Why do you try to kill me?"

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Did not, Moses, give you the law? And yet, not one of you, doeth the law! - Why, seek ye, to slay, me?

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

Revised Standard Version
Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?"

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Dyd not Moses geve you a lawe and yet none of you kepeth ye lawe? Why goo ye aboute to kyll 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?'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Hath not Moses geuen you the lawe? and none of you kepeth the lawe? Why go ye aboute to kyll me?

Mace New Testament (1729)
was it not Moses who gave you the law, and yet none of you observe that law?

Simplified Cowboy Version
Moses gave y'all the Law. There are a lot of teachers and preachers of the Law, but not one of you obeys it. Not only that, but you are trying to kill me."

Contextual Overview

¹⁴With the Feast already half over, Jesus showed up in the Temple, teaching. The Jews were impressed, but puzzled: "How does he know so much without being schooled?" ¹⁶Jesus said, "I didn't make this up. What I teach comes from the One who sent me. Anyone who wants to do his will can test this teaching and know whether it's from God or whether I'm making it up. A person making things up tries to make himself look good. But someone trying to honor the one who sent him sticks to the facts and doesn't tamper with reality. It was Moses, wasn't it, who gave you God's Law? But none of you are living it. So why are you trying to kill me?" ²⁰ The crowd said, "You're crazy! Who's trying to kill you? You're demon-possessed." ²¹Jesus said, "I did one miraculous thing a few months ago, and you're still standing around getting all upset, wondering what I'm up to. Moses prescribed circumcision—originally it came not from Moses but from his ancestors—and so you circumcise a man, dealing with one part of his body, even if it's the Sabbath. You do this in order to preserve one item in the Law of Moses. So why are you upset with me because I made a man's whole body well on the Sabbath? Don't be nitpickers; use your head—and heart!—to discern what is right, to test what is authentically right." ²⁵That's when some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this the one they were out to kill? And here he is out in the open, saying whatever he pleases, and no one is stopping him. Could it be that the rulers know that he is, in fact, the Messiah? And yet we know where this man came from. The Messiah is going to come out of nowhere. Nobody is going to know where he comes from." ²⁸That provoked Jesus, who was teaching in the Temple, to cry out, "Yes, you think you know me and where I'm from, but that's not where I'm from. I didn't set myself up in business. My true origin is in the One who sent me, and you don't know him at all. I come from him—that's how I know him. He sent me here." ³⁰They were looking for a way to arrest him, but not a hand was laid on him because it wasn't yet God's time. Many from the crowd committed themselves in faith to him, saying, "Will the Messiah, when he comes, provide better or more convincing evidence than this?" ³²The Pharisees, alarmed at this seditious undertow going through the crowd, teamed up with the high priests and sent their police to arrest him. Jesus rebuffed them: "I am with you only a short time. Then I go on to the One who sent me. You will look for me, but you won't find me. Where I am, you can't come." ³⁵The Jews put their heads together. "Where do you think he is going that we won't be able to find him? Do you think he is about to travel to the Greek world to teach the Jews? What is he talking about, anyway: ‘You will look for me, but you won't find me,' and ‘Where I am, you can't come'?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

not: John 1:17, John 5:45, John 9:28, John 9:29, Exodus 24:2, Exodus 24:3, Deuteronomy 33:4, Deuteronomy 1:17, Acts 7:38, Galatians 3:19, Hebrews 3:3-5

yet: Matthew 23:2-4, Romans 2:12, Romans 2:13, Romans 2:17-29, Romans 3:10-23, Galatians 6:13

Why: John 7:25, John 5:16, John 5:18, John 10:31, John 10:32, John 10:39, John 11:53, Psalms 2:1-6, Matthew 12:14, Matthew 21:38, Mark 3:4, Mark 3:6

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 23:25 - according Nehemiah 10:29 - given Luke 6:9 - Is it Luke 19:47 - the chief priests John 7:1 - because John 7:30 - they John 8:37 - but Acts 7:53 - and have

Cross-References

Genesis 7:2
"Take on board with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and a female; one pair of every unclean animal, a male and a female; and seven pairs of every kind of bird, a male and a female, to insure their survival on Earth. In just seven days I will dump rain on Earth for forty days and forty nights. I'll make a clean sweep of everything that I've made."

Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters covered the Earth. Noah and his wife and sons and their wives boarded the ship to escape the flood. Clean and unclean animals, birds, and all the crawling creatures came in pairs to Noah and to the ship, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. In seven days the floodwaters came.

Jeremiah 3:22
"We're here! We've come back to you. You're our own true God ! All that popular religion was a cheap lie, duped crowds buying up the latest in gods. We're back! Back to our true God , the salvation of Israel. The Fraud picked us clean, swindled us of what our ancestors bequeathed us, Gypped us out of our inheritance— God-blessed flocks and God-given children. We made our bed and now lie in it, all tangled up in the dirty sheets of dishonor. All because we sinned against our God , we and our fathers and mothers. From the time we took our first steps, said our first words, we've been rebels, disobeying the voice of our God ."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Did not Moses give you the law,.... After Christ had vindicated himself and his doctrine, he proceeds to reprove the Jews for their breaking the law, which contained the will of God: by which it appeared, that they were no proper judges of his doctrine, though they cavilled at it: the question he puts could not be denied by them; for though, properly speaking, God was the lawgiver, yet inasmuch as it was delivered by Moses, it is ascribed to him, and said to come by him; and it was put into his hands, to be delivered by him, peculiarly to the people of Israel; and being given to the Jewish fathers, not only for themselves, but for their posterity in ages to come, is said to be given to the then present generation; and may be understood, either of the whole system of laws, moral, ceremonial, and, judicial, belonging to that people; or else of the particular law, concerning the keeping of the sabbath, which was a peculiar law of Moses, and proper to the children of Israel only:

and [yet] none of you keepeth the law; though they boasted of it as a singular privilege, and rested in it, and their obedience to it for life and salvation, yet daily broke it in various instances, in thought, word, or deed; yea, those that sat in Moses's chair, and taught it, did not observe and do what they taught; nor could the most holy and righteous man among them perfectly keep it: and many of them, who were most forward to censure others, for the violation of it, paid the least regard to it; and particularly to the law of the sabbath, which both priests and people transgressed, in one point or another, every sabbath day: wherefore our Lord reasons with them,

why go ye about to kill me? an harmless and innocent man, who never injured you in your persons and properties; and which is a proof of their not keeping that body of laws Moses gave them, since "thou shalt not kill" is one of them: though rather this may refer to the law of the sabbath, and the sense he, that since Moses had given them the law of the sabbath, and they did not keep it themselves, why should they seek to take away his life, for what they pretended was a breach of it? for our Lord here, as appears by what follows, refers to what they sought to do, above a year and a half ago, and still continued to seek after; namely, to kill him, because he had healed a man on the sabbath day, John 5:16.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Did not Moses give you the law? - This they admitted, and on this they prided themselves. Every violation of that law they considered as deserving of death. They had accused Jesus of violating it because he had healed a man on the Sabbath, and for that they had sought his life, John 5:10-16. He here recalls that charge to their recollection, and shows them that, though they pretended great reverence for that law, yet they were really its violators in having sought his life.

None of you ... - None of you Jews. They had sought to kill him. This was a pointed and severe charge, and shows the great faithfulness with which he was accustomed to proclaim the truth.

Why go ye about to kill me? - Why do ye seek to kill me? See John 5:16.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 7:19. Did not Moses give you the law, c.] The scribes and Pharisees announced our Lord to the multitude as a deceiver and they grounded their calumny on this, that he was not an exact observer of the law, for he had healed a man on the Sabbath day, John 5:9-10; and consequently must be a false prophet. Now they insinuated, that the interests of religion required him to be put to death:

1. As a violator of the law; and,

2. as a false prophet and deceiver of the people.

To destroy this evil reasoning, our Lord speaks in this wise: If I deserve death for curing a man on the Sabbath, and desiring him to carry home his bed, which you consider a violation of the law, you are more culpable than I am, for you circumcise a child on the Sabbath, which requires much more bustle, and is of so much less use than what I have done to the infirm man. But, if you think you do not violate the law by circumcising a child on the Sabbath, how can you condemn me for having cured one of yourselves, who has been afflicted thirty and eight years? If you consider my conduct with the same eye with which you view your own, far from finding any thing criminal in it, you will see much reason to give glory to God. Why, therefore, go ye about to kill me, as a transgressor of the law, when not one of yourselves keeps it?