Jesus replied, “Is it not written in your Law: ‘I have said you are gods’?
Parallel translations
- WEB Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’
- KJV Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
- NKJV Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods” ’ ?
- NASB Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law: ‘I said, you are gods’?
- NLT Jesus replied, “It is written in your own Scriptures that God said to certain leaders of the people, ‘I say, you are gods!’
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Quick answer
Jesus answers by quoting Psalm 82, 'I said, you are gods.' He begins an argument from their own Scriptures.
Overview
Jesus cites the psalm where human judges are called 'gods' because they represented God's authority. This sets up an argument from lesser to greater. He appeals to Scripture they revered to rebut the charge of blasphemy.
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Cross-references · 11
- Ps 82:6–7I have said, ‘You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.’
- Exod 7:1The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
- Ps 82:1A Psalm of Asaph. God presides in the divine assembly; He renders judgment among the gods:
- Exod 4:16He will speak to the people for you. He will be your spokesman, and it will be as if you were God to him.
- Ps 138:1Of David. I give You thanks with all my heart; before the gods I sing Your praises.
- Exod 22:28You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.
- John 12:34The crowd replied, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
- John 8:17Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.
- John 15:25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
- Rom 3:10–19As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
- 1 Cor 14:21It is written in the Law: “By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to Me, says the Lord.”
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