34Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. …
And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
A Psalm of David. I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.
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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