For the Law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you; Moses, in whom you have hoped.

Then they reviled him and said, You are His disciple, but we are Moses' disciples.

We know that God spoke to Moses; as for this fellow, we do not know where He is from.

And Moses alone shall approach Jehovah, but they shall not approach; nor shall the people go up with him.

And Moses came and told the people all the words of Jehovah and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, All the words which Jehovah has spoken we will do.

Moses has commanded a Law for us, a heritage for the congregation of Jacob.

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of any man's presence, for the judgment is God's. And any matter that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.

This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who received the living Words to give to us,

What purpose then does the Law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.

For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house.

And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken later,

saying: The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.

For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned within the Law will be judged through the Law

(for not the hearers of the Law are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified;

Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest on the Law, and make your boast in God,

and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

You who make your boast in the Law, do you dishonor God through transgressing the Law?

For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

And will not the naturally uncircumcised, if he fulfills the Law, judge you who, though having the writings and circumcision, are a transgressor of the Law?

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.

As it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one;

They have all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one.

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

destruction and misery are in their ways;

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Therefore by the deeds of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for through the Law is the full true knowledge of sin.

even the righteousness of God, through the faith of Jesus Christ, to all and upon all who believe. For there is no difference;

For not even those who are circumcised keep the Law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

Then some of them from Jerusalem said, Is this not He whom they seek to kill?

For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath.

Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.

Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.

Jesus answered them, Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?

Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.

Then, from that day on, they took counsel to kill Him.

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples devise a vain thing?

Let us break and tear away their bonds, and cast away their cords from us.

Then He shall speak to them in His anger, and terrify them in His wrath.

Then the Pharisees went out and held a council against Him, how they might destroy Him.

But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.

And He said to them, Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill? But they kept silent.

And the Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.