John 7:19
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
KJV
οὐ Μωϋσῆς δέδωκεν ὑμῖν τὸν νόμον; καὶ οὐδεὶς ἐξ ὑμῶν ποιεῖ τὸν νόμον. τί με ζητεῖτε ἀποκτεῖναι;
Greek NT
Nonne Moyses dedit vobis legem : et nemo ex vobis facit legem ?
Vulgate
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?
ASV
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Μωσεύς
moseus
noun · 81×
δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
ζητέω
zeteo
verb · 117×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὐδείς
oudeis
adjective · 235×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἀποκτείνω
apokteino
verb · 74×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: δέδωκεν | NIV/RP: δέδωκεν | WH/Treg: ἔδωκεν
- δέδωκεν — SBLGNT
- δέδωκεν — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- ἔδωκεν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles
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Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Homilies on the Gospel of John · 3 passages
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1. They who for the sake of the truth and the confession of Christ suffer anything terrible and are insulted, these are especially honored. For as he who loses his possessions for His sake, the same it is who most finds them; as he who hates his own life, the same it is who most loves it; so too he who is insulted, is the same who is most honored. As fell out in the case of the…
1. The heathen are stuck fast in the destruction which they made; in the trap which they hid is their foot taken. Psalm 9:15, Septuagint This has been the case with the Jews. They said that they would kill Jesus, lest the Romans should come and take away their place and nation; and when they had killed Him, these things happened unto them, and when they had done that by doing w…
Cross-references
- Acts 7:53 — Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
- Deut 1:17 — Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you
- Deut 33:4 — Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
- Deut 33:4 — Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
- Exod 24:2 — And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
- Gal 6:13 — For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
- John 1:17 — For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
- John 1:17 — For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
- 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 7:1 — After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
- John 7:1 — After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
- John 8:37 — I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
- John 11:53 — Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.
- Luke 6:9 — Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?
- Matt 12:14 — Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.