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John 19:7 Cross-References
Explore 11 cross-references for John 19:7 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting John chapter 19 verse 7 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”
John 19:7 (KJV)
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Commentary on John 19:7
We have a law (ἡμεῖς νόμον ἔχομεν/hēmeis nomon echomen)—the Jews shift from political charges (treason against Caesar) to theological ones. They reference Leviticus 24:16, which prescribed death for blasphemy. But their application is tragically inverted: the Law they claimed to uphold condemned them for rejecting the very One it testified about (John 5:39).He made himself the Son of God (υἱὸν θεοῦ ἑαυτὸν ἐποίησεν/huion theou heauton epoiēsen) accurately captures Jesus's claim, yet they call it self-exaltation rather than self-revelation. The verb epoiēsen (made) suggests fabrication, manufact...
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Cross-References for John 19:7
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“he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the foreigner as well as the native-born”
“because he not only broke the Sabbath”
“I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
“according to the Spirit of holiness”
“and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him”
“who stood by opposite him”
“'You blaspheme”
“who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name”