33The 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.
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Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.
I and my Father are one.
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-38)We have here another rencounter between Christ and the Jews in the temple, in which it is hard to say which is more strange, the gracious words that came out of his mouth or the spiteful ones that came out of theirs. I. We have here the time when this conference was: It was at the feast of dedication, and it was winter , a feast that was annually observed by consent, in remembrance of the dedicati…
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