Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? why go ye about to kill me? — Jesus appeals to Moses and the Law that the authorities claim to defend, but indicts them for violating it: planning to kill him violates the commandment against murder. The question 'why go ye about to kill me?' is direct and accusatory, naming the hidden intention openly. The irony is cutting: those who boast in the Law and their zeal for it are about to break the Law's most basic prohibition. This exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of institutional opposition to Jesus.

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