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John 10:34

John 10:34
Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came,.... The Syriac version reads, "because the word of God came to them"; either the divine "Logos", the essential word, the Son of God, who…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

John 10:34-38

Jesus answered them - The answer of Jesus consists of two parts. The first Joh 10:34-36 shows that they ought not to object to his use of the word God, even if he were no more than a man. The second…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Is it not written in your law - The words which our Lord quotes are taken from Psa 82:6, which shows that, under the word law, our Lord comprised the Jewish sacred writings in general. See also Joh…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

John 10:22-38

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

John 10:34-38

Christ answers the formal charge of blasphemy by a formal argument on the other side.

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