Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.
- BSB At this, the Jews again picked up stones to stone Him.
- NKJV Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
- NASB The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him.
- NLT Once again the people picked up stones to kill him.
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The Jews again take up stones to kill Jesus. They regard His words as blasphemy deserving death.
Overview
Stoning was the prescribed penalty for blasphemy under the law. Their reaction confirms that they understood Jesus to be claiming equality with God. Their violent response shows hardened unbelief rather than honest inquiry.
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Cross-references · 9
- John 5:18Therefore 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.
- John 8:59Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
- 1 Sam 30:6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
- Exod 17:4And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
- John 11:8His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?
- Acts 7:52Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
- Matt 21:35And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
- Acts 7:58–59And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
- Matt 23:35That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
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