But Jesus responded, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone Me?”Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from the Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
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… Our problem is you're a blasphemer. You being a man, make yourself out to be God. Now turn to the page, verse 34. Jesus answered them with a question that has become, well, a problem of conflict to the reader of Scripture. Listen to what he says. Has it not been written in your law, I said you are gods? If he then called them, if he called them gods to whom the word of God came, the scripture can't be broken. Do you say of him whom the father set apart and sent into the world, you are blaspheming because I said I am the son of God? If you were to take your time to read Psalm 82, you would find that in that Psalm... God the Father reveals to the psalmist that the judges on earth were the Elohim of the earth. That's a Hebrew word meaning gods. They were considered the great leaders. They were considered those that spoke on behalf of God, the judges in the land. …
When they pick up stones, Jesus says, I have shown you many good works from the father. For which of them are you going to stone me? The Jews answer back, verse 33. It's not for a good work that we're gonna stone you, but for blasphemy, because you being a man, make yourself God. and then Jesus does this strange thing. He quotes Psalm 82. he says, is it not written in your law, I said you are gods. Jesus says, if he called them gods to whom the word of God came to people, mere mortals, do you say of whom the father consecrated and sent into the world, you are blaspheming because I said, I am the son of God. What's he doing? it's honestly difficult to really say. And I won't get into all the possible interpretations, but good scholars that I trust, you would know their names if I mentioned them. Good scholars that I trust, they get to the end of their sophisticated, theological, exegetical explanations for how Psalm 82 relates to John 10 and how Jesus is seeing those verses. …
… And then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered them, Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me? The Jews answered Him, saying, For a good work we do not stone you, but for blasphemy. because you, being a man, make yourself God. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, you are gods? If He called them gods to whom the word of God comes and the Scriptures cannot be broken, do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, you are blaspheming? Because I said, I am the Son of God. If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me. But if I do, though you do not believe me, believe the works that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in Him." And therefore they sought again to seize him, but he escaped out of their hand. …