Matthew Poole and continuators on John 7:19

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

Moses was Gods Instrument in delivering his Law to the People, Exod. 24.3. Deut. 33.4.

A Law which none of them exactly kept, but daily brake; why do you (saith our Saviour) make it such a Capital Crime (suppose you were not in an Error, but I had in this one point of the Sabbath violated the Law) in me, to break the Law, that you for it would have my Blood? how cometh it to be a more hainous Offence in me to break the Law in one thing, than it is in you, who violate it in so many things? Or,

do not you think it a Capital Crime maliciously to go about to destroy an Innocent Person? Is not that a greater breach, think you, of the sixth Commandment, than what I have done, is of the fourth? Supposing that had been any breach of the Law at all, which indeed it was not.

Marginal references: Acts 7.35, &c▪; John 5.16, 18. and 10.39. and 11.53.