Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 19. The law of Moses prescribes that you shall not kill, but this law you transgress; for, why do you seek to kill me? You yourselves are transgressors of the law, and therefore no ways proper persons to judge me for transgressing it. Saint John Chrysostom hom. xlviii in Joan.—You do not observe the law; otherwise you would learn from that law, that I am the Christ, and not seek to put me to death, when I appear amongst you. Saint Augustine tract. 30. in Joan.—If I cure on the sabbath-day, do not you also give circumcision, and also cure the wound on the sabbath? V.—See verse 23, of this chapter.