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We Have a Law

We Have a Law WE HAVE A LAW BY DAVID W. WEAD Minneapolis The charge for the crucifixion of Jesus in the Gospel of John is presented to Pilate in John xix 7: "We have a law and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God" 1). This law is usually interpreted to relate to the law of blasphemy which we find in Lev. xxiv 16. Such an interpretation is rightly based on John x 33 where it expressly says that the Jews sought to kill Jesus because he blasphemed, "making himself God." Our purpose is to explore this situation further showing there were other grounds from the Mosaic Law on which Jesus ought to be put to death in the eyes of the unbelieving Jew. These grounds are particularly significant in the light of the Johannine usage of the word In John v 18, the first reference in the gospel to the Jews' com- pulsion to kill Jesus, we read: This was why the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but also called God His father making himself equal with God." The first cause for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Novum Testamentum Brill

We Have a Law

Novum Testamentum , Volume 11 (3): 185 – Jan 1, 1969

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Brill
Copyright
© 1969 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0048-1009
eISSN
1568-5365
DOI
10.1163/156853669X00209
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Abstract

WE HAVE A LAW BY DAVID W. WEAD Minneapolis The charge for the crucifixion of Jesus in the Gospel of John is presented to Pilate in John xix 7: "We have a law and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God" 1). This law is usually interpreted to relate to the law of blasphemy which we find in Lev. xxiv 16. Such an interpretation is rightly based on John x 33 where it expressly says that the Jews sought to kill Jesus because he blasphemed, "making himself God." Our purpose is to explore this situation further showing there were other grounds from the Mosaic Law on which Jesus ought to be put to death in the eyes of the unbelieving Jew. These grounds are particularly significant in the light of the Johannine usage of the word In John v 18, the first reference in the gospel to the Jews' com- pulsion to kill Jesus, we read: This was why the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but also called God His father making himself equal with God." The first cause for

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Novum TestamentumBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1969

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