JOHN 10:36 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?”
What about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, 'I am God's son'? — Jesus shifts from the Psalm 82 argument to His own unique status: He has been consecrated and sent by the Father with a specific mission (aposteluō, sent as an apostle). His claim is not identical to that of the judges in Psalm 82 but exceeds it, having unique status and mission. He identifies Himself as 'God's son' (huios tou theou), and the question implicitly asks why this claim, given His unique commission, would be considered blasphemous.
Church Fathers on John 10:36
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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