John 7:19
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?"

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?”

Contemporary English Version
Didn't Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you obey it! So why do you want to kill me?

New American Bible
Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law?

not.

John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

John 5:45 Think not that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one that accuseth you, Moses, in whom you trust.

John 9:28,29 They reviled him therefore and said: Be thou his disciple; but we are the disciples of Moses. . . .

Exodus 24:2,3 And Moses alone shall come up to the Lord, but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people come up with him. . . .

Deuteronomy 33:4 Moses commanded us a law, the inheritance of the multitude of Jacob.

Deuteronomy 1:17 There shall be no difference of persons, you shall hear the little as well as the great: neither shall you respect any man's person, because it is the judgment of God. And if any thing seem hard to you, refer it to me, and I will hear it.

Acts 7:38 This is he that was in the church in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sina and with our fathers. Who received the words of life to give unto us.

Galatians 3:19 Why then was the law? It was set because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom he made the promise, being ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

Hebrews 3:3-5 For this man was counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by so much as he that hath built the house hath greater honour than the house. . . .

yet.

Matthew 23:2-4 Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses. . . .

Romans 2:12,13,17-29 For whosoever have sinned without the law shall perish without the law: and whosoever have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law. . . .

Romans 3:10-23 As it is written: There is not any man just. . . .

Galatians 6:13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law: but they will have you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

Why.

John 7:25 Some therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

John 5:16,18 Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath. . . .

John 10:31,32,39 The Jews then took up stones to stone him. . . .

John 11:53 From that day therefore they devised to put him to death.

Psalm 2:1-6 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? . . .

Matthew 12:14 And the Pharisees going out made a consultation against him, how they might destroy him.

Matthew 21:38 But the husbandmen seeing the son, said among themselves: This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance.

Mark 3:4,6 And he saith to them: Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? To save life, or to destroy? But they held their peace. . . .

Context
Jesus Teaches at the Feast
18He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true and there is no injustice in him. 19Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? 20Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a devil. Who seeketh to kill thee?…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:4
Moses commanded us a law, the inheritance of the multitude of Jacob.

Mark 11:18
Which when the chief priests and the scribes had heard, they sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because the whole multitude was in admiration at his doctrine.

John 1:17
For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

John 7:1
After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

John 7:18
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