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John 19:7

The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

KJV

ἀπεκρίθησαν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι· ἡμεῖς νόμον ἔχομεν, καὶ κατὰ τὸν νόμον ὀφείλει ἀποθανεῖν, ὅτι υἱὸν θεοῦ ἑαυτὸν ἐποίησεν.

Greek NT

Responderunt ei Judæi : Nos legem habemus, et secundum legem debet mori, quia Filium Dei se fecit.

Vulgate

The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

ASV

The Jews answered him: We have a law; and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
ἀποθνήσκω
apothnesko
verb · 112×
ἀποκρίνομαι
apokrinomai
verb · 233×
ἑαυτοῦ
eautou
reflexive_pronoun · 316×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
Ἰουδαῖος
ioudaios
adjective · 193×
ὀφείλω
opheilo
verb · 35×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: νόμον | WH/Treg/NIV: νόμον | RP: + ἡμῶν
  • νόμονSBLGNT
  • νόμονWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + ἡμῶνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: υἱὸν θεοῦ ἑαυτὸν | WH/Treg/NIV: υἱὸν θεοῦ ἑαυτὸν | RP: ἑαυτὸν υἱὸν θεοῦ
  • υἱὸν θεοῦ ἑαυτὸνSBLGNT
  • υἱὸν θεοῦ ἑαυτὸνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἑαυτὸν υἱὸν θεοῦRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Dan 3:25 — He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
  • Deut 18:20 — But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
  • Isa 53:4 — Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
  • Isa 53:8 — He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
  • John 1:34 — And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
  • John 5:18 — Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
  • John 5:18 — Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
  • John 10:30 — I and my Father are one.
  • John 10:36 — Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
  • John 10:36 — Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
  • Lev 24:16 — And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphe
  • Mark 14:61 — But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?
  • Mark 14:61 — But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?
  • Mark 14:64 — Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.
  • Mark 15:39 — And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.
  • Matt 14:33 — Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.
  • Matt 26:63 — But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
  • Matt 26:66 — What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
  • Matt 27:42 — He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
  • Rom 1:4 — And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: