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.

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• John 3:17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
• John 5:17–18But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
• Jer 1:5Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
• John 6:27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
• John 20:28And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my God.
• John 20:31But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
• John 10:30–33I and my 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 Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
• Luke 1:35And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
• Ps 2:2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
• Ps 2:6–12Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
• Matt 27:43He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
• John 3:34For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
• John 17:21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
• John 9:35–37Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
• John 6:57As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
• John 17:4–5I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
• John 17:8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
• John 17:18As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
• John 5:30I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
• John 6:38For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
• John 6:69And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
• Rom 1:4And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
• Rom 9:5Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
• Isa 49:6–8And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
• Matt 26:63–66But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
• Matt 27:54Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
• Isa 49:1–3Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
• 1 Jn 4:9–14In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
• Rom 8:3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
• John 8:42Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
• Gal 4:4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
• Isa 11:2–5And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
• Isa 42:1Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
• Isa 42:3A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
• John 5:36–37But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
• Isa 55:4Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.

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