JOHN 10:33 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.”
We are not stoning you for any good work,' they replied, 'but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God' — the opponents explicitly identify the charge: Jesus, being human (anthrōpos), claims to be God (theios), which they regard as blasphemy. This shows they understood perfectly the implication of Jesus' claim. Their use of 'mere man' does not negate the seriousness with which they took His claim; rather, it emphasizes their judgment that His claim exceeds what any human has the right to assert.
Church Fathers on John 10:33
At this speech, I and My Father are one, the Jews could not restrain their rage, but ran to take up stones, after their hardhearted way: Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
The heretics now, as unbelieving and rebellious against our Lord in heaven, show their impious hatred by the stones, i.e. the words they cast at Him; as if they would drag Him down again from His throne to the cross.
Our Lord remonstrates with them; Many good works have I showed you from My Father, strewing that they had no just reason for their anger.
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