John 10:36

Jesus argues that if such men were called gods, it is no blasphemy for the one the Father consecrated and sent to call Himself the Son of God. His unique consecration justifies His claim.

Cross-references · 38

• John 3:17For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
• John 5:17–18But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”
• Jer 1:5“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
• John 6:27Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
• John 20:28Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
• John 20:31but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
• John 10:30–33I and the Father are one.”
• John 19:7The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”
• Isa 61:1–3The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• Luke 1:35The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.
• Ps 2:2The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
• Ps 2:6–12“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
• Matt 27:43He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
• John 3:34For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
• John 17:21that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
• John 9:35–37Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
• John 6:57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
• John 17:4–5I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
• John 17:8for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
• John 17:18As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.
• John 5:30I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
• John 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
• John 6:69We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
• Rom 1:4who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
• Rom 9:5of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
• Isa 49:6–8Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel? I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
• Matt 26:63–66But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
• Matt 27:54Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.”
• Isa 49:1–3Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother he has mentioned my name.
• 1 Jn 4:9–14By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
• Rom 8:3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
• John 8:42Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.
• Gal 4:4But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
• Isa 11:2–5Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
• Isa 42:1“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights — I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
• Isa 42:3He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.
• John 5:36–37But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
• Isa 55:4Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

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