Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
John 10:34-38
34–38. Christ answers a formal charge of blasphemy by a formal argument on the other side.
34–38. Christ answers a formal charge of blasphemy by a formal argument on the other side.
Verse 34. _IS IT NOT WRITTEN IN YOUR LAW_] The words which our Lord quotes are taken from Psalms 82:6, which shows that, under the word _law_, our Lord comprised the Jewish _sacred writings_ in gener...
JESUS ANSWERED THEM - The answer of Jesus consists of two parts. The first John 10:34 shows that they ought not to object to his use of the word God, even if he were no more than a man. The second Joh...
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The Shepherd of the Sheep. (John 10:1 .)_ 2. The Good Shepherd, His Sheep and His Work. (John 10:6 .) 3. At the Feast of Dedication; the Repeated Testimony. (John 10:22 .) 4. Accuse...
THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION._ Mg.,_ At that time suggests a closer connexion with what precedes than the old reading And. But in any case the notes of time are not precise. The Feast of the Dedication...
IS IT NOT WRITTEN... SAID YE ARE GODS. The quotation is from Ps. 82, which contains. reproof of unjust judges: "I have said that ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High, but ye shall...
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP (John 10:1-6)...
The Jews again lifted up stones to stone him. Jesus said to them: "I have showed you many lovely deeds, which came from my Father. For which of these deeds are you trying to stone me?" The Jews answer...
LAW. The usual division is "the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms "(Luke 24:44). Here the Psalms are included in the Law. Compare John 15:25. GODS. See App-98. Quoted from Psalms 82:6. Psa 82:38 UNTO...
Christ answers the formal charge of blasphemy by a formal argument on the other side....
_in your law_ -Law" is here used in its widest sense for the whole of the Old Testament; so also in John 12:34 and John 15:25; in all three places the passage referred to is in the Psalms. Comp. Joh 7...
The Discourse at the Feast of the Dedication Again we seem to have a gap in the narrative. Between John 10:21 (but see below) there is an interval of about two months; for the Feast of Tabernacles wo...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
Ver 31. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him, 32. Jesus answered them, "Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do you stone me?" 33. The Jews answered hi...
_JESUS WAS REJECTED BY THE JEWS -- JOHN 10:22-38:_ That winter, Jesus was in Jerusalem for the feast of the dedication. In Solomon's Porch the people gathered all around Him. They asked Jesus to tell...
ΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΈΝΟΝ _perf. pass. part. пот. n. sing. от_ ΓΡΆΦΩ (G1125) писать. По поводу цитаты из Psalms 81:6 _см._ A.T.Hanson, "John's Citation of Psalm 82 in John 10:33-36" NTS 11 (1964/65): 158-62; "John'...
IS IT NOT WRITTEN, &C.— The Jews divided the Old Testament in various manners; sometimes, as we have before observed, into the writings of Moses, the Psalms, and the prophets; and at other times only...
EVIDENCE FOR DEITY _Text 10:32-42_ 32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from the Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? 33 The Jews answered him, For a good work we...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 10:22-42 It is by no means a simple task either to analyze or to summarize the second half of John 10. The twenty-second verse clearly begins a new section of th...
Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? JESUS ANSWERED THEM, IS IT NOT WRITTEN IN YOUR LAW () - respecting judges or magistrates, I SAID, YE ARE GODS? - as being...
34 The term "gods" is translated "judges" in Exo_21:6; Exo_22:8-9, where it refers to men. But our Lord does not appeal to this, but to Psa_82:6 where the context clearly excludes men. The mighty spir...
10:34 law, (c-10) Psalms 82:6 ....
THE GOOD SHEPHERD. THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION 1-18. Allegories of the Fold and of the Good Shepherd. This chapter continues Christ's discourse to His Pharisaic disciples begun at John 9:39. His words...
JESUS AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION. As there is no statement that Jesus went up to Jerusalem, it is fair to infer that Jesus spent the two months between the Feast of Tabernacles and that of the Ded...
YOUR LAW] i.e. the OT., which you acknowledge. 'The Law' not infrequently stands for the whole OT.: see John 12:34; John 15:25; 1 Corinthians 14:21. The quotation here is from...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 10 JESUS TELLS A STORY ABOUT A *SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP 10:1-10 V1 Jesus said, ‘I tell you the truth. Only thieves climb...
IS IT NOT WRITTEN IN YOUR LAW? — Comp. Note on John 8:17. The passage here quoted is in Psalms 82:6, but the term “Law” is here used in a wide sense for the whole of the Old Testament. There are other...
CHAPTER 22 JESUS, SON OF GOD. “And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch. The Jews therefore came round about Him, and...
_Sayings of Jesus at the Feast of Dedication_....
On this occasion He merely shows that even a man could without blasphemy call himself “Son of God”; because their own judges had been called “gods”. Οὐκ ἔστι γεγραμμένον ἐν τῶ νόμῳ ὑμῶν, “Is it not wr...
THE WORKS OF THE FATHER John 10:31-42 In the strongest terms known to the Jews, our Lord insisted on His oneness with God; and they understood His claims, threatening Him with the penalty of blasphem...
Continuing, He gave a more detailed picture of that coming order. There was to be a fold, with a door. There was to be a flock, with a shepherd. Entrance to the fold would be by the door. The flock wo...
This is addressed to princes established to govern the people of God. They are the image of God on earth by the authority they exercise, and which they have received from Him. --- Is it not written in...
THE ASSAULT John 10:30-39. “ _I and My Father are one_.” There is but one God, but three persons _i.e._, three characters manifested by the Deity to the world. I am a preacher, a teacher, and a book e...
SECOND PART: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNBELIEF IN ISRAEL. 5:1- 12:50. UP to this point, decided faith and unbelief have been only exceptional phenomena; the masses have remained in a state of passive indiff...
“ _Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law I said ye are gods?_ 35. _If it called them gods to whom the word of God was addressed, and the Scripture cannot be broken_, 36 _do you say of him...
THIRD SECTION: 10:22-42. THE SECOND DISCOURSE. In chap. John 7:19-24, we have seen Jesus return, in a discourse pronounced at the feast of Tabernacles, to the fact of the healing of the impotent man ...
III. SECOND ADDRESS: JOHN 10:32-39. The reply of Jesus treats of two subjects: 1. That of the _blasphemy_ which is imputed to Him (John 10:32-36); 2. That of His _relation_ to God which is contested ...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 33-42. 1. There can be no doubt that the Jews understood Jesus as claiming to be God. John 10:33 clearly proves this. The words of the following verses ar...
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. (32) Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father: for which of those works do ye stone me? (33) The Jews answered him, saying...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
34._Is it not written in your Law? _He clears himself of the crime charged against him, not by denying that he is the Son of God, but by maintaining that he had justly said so. Yet he adapts his reply...
In chapter 10 He contrasts Himself with all those who pretended, or had pretended, to be shepherds of Israel. He develops these three points; He comes in by the door; He is the door; and He is the She...
JESUS ANSWERED THEM, IS IT NOT WRITTEN IN YOUR LAW,.... In the law which was given unto them, of which they boasted, and pretended to understand, and interpret, even in Psalms 82:6; for the law includ...
Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? Ver. 34. _In your law_] So he calls it, to show that there was no necessity on his part to prove what he delivered by any Scri...
John 10:34-36. "Jesus answered them, It is written in your law, I said, Ye are gods. If he called them gods, unto whom the Word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; say ye of him," etc. Th...
_Jesus answered, Many good works have I showed you from my Father_ That is, in confirmation of my mission from my Father I have wrought many miracles, all of a beneficent kind, and most becoming the p...
YOUR LAW; the Old Testament scriptures. Psalms 82:6....
The Jews accuse Jesus of blasphemy:...
JESUS ANSWERED THEM, IS IT NOT WRITTEN IN YOUR LAW, I SAID, YE ARE GODS?...
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE SHEPHERD (vs.1-18) Now the Lord speaks in parabolic form, again in verse 1 doubly pressing the truth of His words. One climbing the fence of the sheepfold (rather then entering...
31-38 Christ's works of power and mercy proclaim him to be over all, God blessed for evermore, that all may know and believe He is in the Father, and the Father in Him. Whom the Father sends, he sanc...
This was written, PSALMS 82:6. The whole Scripture of the Old Testament, being wrote by holy men, inspired of God, and directive of men's conversation before men, and towards God, is sometimes called...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V ,"[375] Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V This, he asserts, is that which has been written: "I said, Ye are gods, and all children of the highest; "[64]...
John 10:34 Jesus G2424 answered G611 (G5662) them G846 it G2076 (G5748) not G3756 written G1125 ...
‘Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are gods'? (Psalms 82:6). If he called them gods to whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken, do you say of...
THE FEAST OF DEDICATION (JOHN 10:22)....
John 10:34. JESUS ANSWERED THEM, IS IT NOT WRITTEN IN YOUR LAW, I SAID, YE ARE GODS? The quotation is from Psalms 82 (the word ‘law' being used, as in chap. John 15:25 and some other places, for the O...
The contest with the Jews is continued. The section strikingly illustrates the plan of the gospel (1) by taking up again that claim of Jesus to be the Son of God which had, more than anything else, pr...
IS IT NOT WRITTEN? (ουκ εστιν γεγραμμενον;). Periphrastic perfect passive indicative of γραφω (as in John 2:17) in place of the usual γεγραπτα. "Does it not stand written?"IN YOUR LAW (εν τω νομω...
CONTENTS: Discourse on the Good Shepherd. Jesus' deity asserted. CHARACTERS: Jesus, God. CONCLUSION: God, our great owner, the sheep of whose pasture we are by creation, has constituted His Son, Jes...
John 10:1. _He that entereth not by the door is a thief and a robber._ After the scribes had formed a plot against the life of the good shepherd, he told them that they were not the children of Abraha...
IT IS WRITTEN IN YOUR OWN LAW. Psalms 82:6. [Note Jesus includes the Psalms in the Law.] YOU ARE GODS. Their own judges [rulers] had been called "gods" in the Scriptures. This was because God's messag...
_Then came the Jews round about Him_ THE SCENE AND CIRCUMSTANCES Here in this bright colonnade, decked for the feast with glittering trophies, Jesus was walking up and down, quietly, and apparently w...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 10:34 If human judges (Psalms 82:2) can in some sense be called GODS (for their role as representatives of God), this title is certainly much more appro
VER. 32. _Jesus answered_, &c. He replied not to the words, for none had been spoken, but to the crafty intention of the Jews. He answered, _i.e._, He asked them for what cause do ye wish to stone Me?...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 10:22. _Our Lord’s utterances at the feast of dedication on His oneness with the Father, etc._—This feast (τὰ ἐγκαίνια—the Encænia) was post-exilic in its origin....
EXPOSITION JOHN 10:1 5. _Christ the Shepherd of the flock of God_._ _The discourse which now follows was the Lord's parabolic or allegoric reply to the conduct of the Pharisaic malignants. These men...
So chapter 10, it would seem to be as just a continuation of this whole movement here of the blind man receiving his sight, being put out by the organized religious system, being taken in by Jesus Chr...
Exodus 22:28; Exodus 4:16; Exodus 7:1; John 12:34; John 15:25;...
Is it not written [ο υ κ ε σ τ ι ν γ ε γ ρ α μ μ ε ν ο ν]. More strictly, does it not stand written. Law [ν ο μ ω]. The word is sometimes used in the New Testament of other scriptures. See John 12:34;...
Psalms 82:6....
Did Jesus advocate that man could become God? PROBLEM: Jesus answered a group of Jews and said, “Is it not written in your law, `I said, you are gods’?” Does this mean that humans can become God as p...
Here our Saviour by. two-fold argument vindicates himself from the imputation of blasphemy, in assertion himself to be God. 1. Because the Old Testament gave to magistrates and judges the title of god...