JOHN 10:34 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?”
Jesus answered, 'Is it not written in your Law, "I have said you are gods"?' — Jesus responds with a quotation from Psalm 82:6, where human judges in Israel are called 'gods' (elohim) because they serve as God's representatives in administering justice. If human judges can be called gods in the biblical text, Jesus argues, why would it be blasphemous for Him (whom the Father has set apart and sent into the world) to claim this title? The argument is not that Jesus is merely another judge but that He uses Scripture to question the premises of the charge.
Church Fathers on John 10:34
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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