John 7:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• John 7:19 - Albert 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...

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• John 7:19 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (7) Did not Moses give you the law, and [yet] none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me? (7) None boast more confidently that they themselves are the defenders of the law of God than t...

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• John 7:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Secret Visit. Soon, however, He receives the Divine intimation, for which He always waits ( cf. John 2:4 , John 11:6 f.) and goes up secretly. The Jews are discussing Him, and various opini...

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• John 7:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Moses . See note on John 1:17 . keepeth . doeth. go... about . seek.

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• John 7:19 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  19. Did not Moses give you the Law? The Evangelist does not give a full and connected narrative of the sermon delivered by Christ, but only a brief selection of the principal topics, which c...

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• John 7:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me? Did not Moses give you the law, etc. - The scribes and Pharisees announced our Lord to the multitude...

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• John 7:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Did not Moses give you the law,— There is a remarkable beauty in this sudden turn of the sentiment. Some of the Jews called Jesus a false prophet, because he had healed the paralytic at Bethesda...

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• John 7:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me? Did not Moses give you, [ dedooken ( G1325 ), 'Hath not Moses given you'] the law, and ye...

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• John 7:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Feast of Tabernacles John 7:1 to John 10:21 . Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles, October, 28 a.d. After the discourse of John 6 , delivered just before Passover 28 a.d., Jesus did not go...

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• John 7:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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 y...

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• John 7:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 16 JESUS DISCUSSED IN JERUSALEM. “And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for He would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill Him. Now the feast of the Jews, the feast...

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• John 7:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  How to Know the Truth of Jesus' Word John 7:14-24 Jesus now went up to the feast, not because he was prompted by the worldly policy suggested by His brethren, but because He was led by His Fath...

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• John 7:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  So far, John has recorded incidents in the first year of our Lord's ministry. We now come to a comparatively brief section in which he records happenings happenings in the central and crowded two yea...

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• John 7:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret. (11) Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? (12) And there was mu...

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• John 7:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 ap...

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• John 7:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me? Ver. 19. Did not Moses give you the law ] q.d. You bear me still an old grudge, an aching toot...

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• John 7:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Did not Moses give you the law As if he had said, But you are unrighteous; for you violate the very law for which you profess so much zeal. There is a remarkable beauty in this sudden turn of the s...

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• John 7:19 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  HIS BROTHERS UNBELIEVING (vs.1-9) The Lord continued for a time in Galilee. He would not then return to Judea because of the Jews' murderous intentions. This was certainly not fear, but sober, lo...

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• John 7:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ at the Feast of Tabernacles.       14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.   15 And the Jew...

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• John 7:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Moses was God's instrument in delivering his law to the people, Exodus 24:3 Deuteronomy 33:4 ; a law which none of them exactly kept, but daily broke. Why do you (saith our Saviour) make it such...

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• John 7:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Jesus Teaches Openly In The Temple And Pleads For Right Judgment ( John 7:14-24 ). But whilst Jesus was taking every precaution He knew that He could not allow His own safety to hinder the proclam...

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• John 7:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 7:14 . Now about the midst, etc. —The middle of the feast, or “the lesser feast.” It was the fourth day of the feast most likely. Taught. —For the first time...

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• John 7:19 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 7:14 . Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. He was no coward, so he boldly showed himself in the midst of the throng in the temple. John 7:15 . And...

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• John 7:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 7:1 . He would not walk in Jewry, or Judea, because the jews sought to kill him. Herod had recently beheaded John, pleading the magnitude of his auditories; now, the jews magnified the same...

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• John 7:19 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Did not Moses give you the law? Murder in desire The desire to kill Christ I. WAS INCONSISTENT WITH THEIR RELIGIOUS PROFESSION. They professedly believed in Moses, and esteemed him highly. B...

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• John 7:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Ch. 7-10. contain the record of the conflict between faith and unbelief in the metropolis. At first the narrative indicates a vast amount of critical inquiry, of unsettled opinion, of...

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• John 7:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The appearance of Jesus at the festival:

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• John 7:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 7:38 ; Deuteronomy 1:17 ; Deuteronomy 33:4 ; Exodus 24:2 ; Exodus 24:3 ; Galatians 3:19 ; Galatians 6:13 ; Hebrews 3:3-5 ; John 1:17 ; John 10:31 ; John 10:32 ; John 10:39 ; John 11...

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• John 7:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  But ye are unrighteous; for ye violate the very law which ye profess so much zeal for.

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