Jesus replied, “Is it not written in your Law: ‘I have said you are gods’?Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’?Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
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… 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. Now Jesus says, you had no argument with the judges being called gods. But I come having been sent from the Father, and I declare I have been sent from him. I am his representative. I am in fact God in the flesh. …
… 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. They get to the end of all that sophisticated argumentation and they basically say, he was buying some time. He was buying some time. The argument, the scriptures sometimes call humans gods. So why would you stone me for saying I'm the son of God? …
… 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. And he went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed. And many came to him and said, John performed no sign, but all the things that John spoke about this man were true, and many believed in him there. …