Verse (Click for Chapter) 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? Contemporary English Version Didn't Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you obey it! So why do you want to kill 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? 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?" Majority Standard Bible Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. 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 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?” Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionhas not Moses given you the Law? And none of you does the Law; why do you seek 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?" 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?' Smith's Literal Translation Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you does the law? Why seek ye to kill me? Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleDid Moses not give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Catholic Public Domain Version Did not Moses give you the law? And yet not one among you keeps the law! New American Bible Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying 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?” Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleDid not Moses give you the law? and yet no one of you obeys the law. Why do you want 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.” NT Translations Anderson New TestamentDid not Moses give you the law? and not one of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me? Godbey New Testament Haweis New Testament Hath not Moses given you the law, yet none of you practises the law? Why do ye seek to kill me? Mace New Testament was it not Moses who gave you the law, and yet none of you observe that law? 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?" Worrell New Testament Worsley New Testament Additional Translations ... Audio Bible 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 Matthew 5:17-20 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. / For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. / So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. ... Romans 2:17-24 Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God; / if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; / if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness, ... Acts 7:51-53 You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did. / Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers— / you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.” Galatians 3:10-12 All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” / Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.” / The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.” Deuteronomy 31:24-27 When Moses had finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end, / he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD: / “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you. ... Jeremiah 7:25-26 From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again. / Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers. Isaiah 29:13 Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men. Matthew 23:2-3 “The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. / So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. Romans 3:19-20 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. / Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin. John 5:45-47 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope. / If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me. / But since you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?” Exodus 24:3-8 When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.” / And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early the next morning he got up and built an altar at the base of the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. / Then he sent out some young men of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD. ... Nehemiah 9:26-30 But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies. / So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies. / But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, who had dominion over them. When they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven, and You delivered them many times in Your compassion. ... Ezekiel 20:13-21 Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness. / But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out. / Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands— ... Luke 11:47-48 Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them. / So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs. Acts 13:27 The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. 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… Jump to Previous Carries Death Desire Keepeth Keeps Kill Law Moses Obeys Practises Seek Trying WantJump to Next Carries Death Desire Keepeth Keeps Kill Law Moses Obeys Practises Seek Trying WantJohn 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. Has not Moses given you the law? This phrase begins with a rhetorical question that Jesus poses to the Jewish leaders and the crowd. The reference to "Moses" is significant because Moses is a central figure in Jewish history and tradition, revered as the lawgiver who received the Torah from God on Mount Sinai. The Greek word used here for "given" is "δίδωμι" (didōmi), which implies a gift or a grant. The law, or "νόμος" (nomos), is not merely a set of rules but a divine covenant that was meant to guide the Israelites in their relationship with God and with each other. Jesus is reminding them of the sacredness and the divine origin of the law, which they claim to uphold. Yet not one of you keeps the law Why are you trying to kill Me? Parallel Commentaries ... Greek {Has} notΟὐ (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. Links John 7:19 NIVJohn 7:19 NLT John 7:19 ESV John 7:19 NASB John 7:19 KJV John 7:19 BibleApps.com John 7:19 Biblia Paralela John 7:19 Chinese Bible John 7:19 French Bible John 7:19 Catholic Bible NT Gospels: John 7:19 Didn't Moses give you the law (Jhn Jo Jn) |