John 19:7
Good News Translation
The crowd answered back, "We have a law that says he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God."

New Revised Standard Version
The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has claimed to be the Son of God.”

Contemporary English Version
The crowd replied, "He claimed to be the Son of God! Our law says that he must be put to death."

New American Bible
The Jews answered, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

We have.

Leviticus 24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die. All the multitude shall stone him, whether he be a native or a stranger. He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die.

Deuteronomy 18:20 But the prophet, who being corrupted with pride, shall speak in my name things that I did not command him to say, or in the name of strange gods, shall be slain.

because.

John 5:18 Hereupon therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he did not only break the sabbath but also said God was his Father, making himself equal to God.

John 8:58,59 Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was made, I AM. . . .

John 10:30-33,36-38 I and the Father are one. . . .

Matthew 26:63-66 But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said to him: I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou be the Christ the Son of God. . . .

Matthew 27:42,43 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. . . .

Mark 14:61-64 But he held his peace and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him and said to him: Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed God? . . .

Mark 15:39 And the centurion who stood over against him, seeing that crying out in this manner he had given up the ghost. said: Indeed this man was the son of God.

Romans 1:4 Who was predestinated the Son of God in power, according to the spirit of sanctification, by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead:

Context
The Soldiers Mock Jesus
6When the chief priests, therefore, and the servants had seen him, they cried out, saying: Crucify him, Crucify him. Pilate saith to them: Take him you, and crucify him: for I find no cause in him. 7The Jews answered him: We have a law; and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. 8When Pilate therefore had heard this saying, he feared the more.…
Cross References
Leviticus 24:16
And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die. All the multitude shall stone him, whether he be a native or a stranger. He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die.

Isaiah 53:4
Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted.

Matthew 26:63
But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said to him: I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou be the Christ the Son of God.

Matthew 26:66
What think you? But they answering, said: He is guilty of death.

John 5:18
Hereupon therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he did not only break the sabbath but also said God was his Father, making himself equal to God.

John 10:33
The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy: and because that thou. being a, man, makest thyself God.

John 19:8
When Pilate therefore had heard this saying, he feared the more.

Acts 18:13
Saying: This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

John 19:6
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