The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
Parallel translations
- WEB The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”
- BSB “We have a law,” answered the Jews, “and according to that law He must die, because He declared Himself to be the Son of God.”
- NKJV The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to our law He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God.”
- NASB The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by that law He ought to die, because He made Himself out to be the Son of God!”
- NLT The Jewish leaders replied, “By our law he ought to die because he called himself the Son of God.”
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Quick answer
The Jewish leaders reveal their real charge: Jesus claimed to be the Son of God. By their law that was blasphemy deserving death.
Overview
Unable to make a political charge stick, the leaders appeal to the Mosaic law against blasphemy (Leviticus 24:16), citing Jesus' claim to be the Son of God. The irony is that the charge is true in a sense they reject: Jesus truly is God's Son. Thus the very confession that condemns him in their eyes is the heart of the gospel they refuse to believe.
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- Lev 24:16And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.
- 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.
- 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.
- Rom 1:4And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
- Mark 15:39And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.
- Mark 14:61–64But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?
- Matt 27:42–43He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
- John 10:36–38Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
- John 10:30–33I and my Father are one.
- Deut 18:20But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
- John 8:58–59Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
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