Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 10:35
If he (God) called them gods unto whom the word of God came, (that is, to whom God was then speaking,) and the Scripture cannot be broken — That is, nothing which is written therein can be censured or rejected.
If he (God) called them gods unto whom the word of God came, (that is, to whom God was then speaking,) and the Scripture cannot be broken — That is, nothing which is written therein can be censured or rejected.
Verse 35. _UNTO WHOM THE WORD OF GOD CAME_] Bishop Pearce thinks that "the word λογος, here, is put for λογος κρισεως, _the word_ or _matter of judgment_, as in 2 Chronicles 19:6, where Jehoshaphat,...
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...
CANNOT. is not (Greek. _ou._ App-105) able to. BROKEN. Compare John 7:23....
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...
Christ answers the formal charge of blasphemy by a formal argument on the other side....
_If he called them gods_ More probably, _If_ IT _called them gods_, viz. the Law. -Them" is left unexplained; a Jewish audience would at once know who were meant. But how incredible that any but a Jew...
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...
34–38. Christ answers a formal charge of blasphemy by a formal argument on the other side....
ΕἸ ἘΚ. ΕἾ. Θ. Probably, _If_ it _called them gods_, viz. the Law. ‘Them’ is left unexplained; a Jewish audience would at once know who were meant. But how incredible that any but a Jew should think of...
THE DISCOURSE AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION Again we seem to have a gap in the narrative. Between John 10:21-22 (but see below) there is an interval of about two months; for the Feast of Tabernacles...
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...
ΛΥΘΉΝΑΙ _aor. pass. inf. от_ ΛΎΩ (G3089) ломать, отодвигать в сторону, нарушать (Brown). _Inf._ в роли дополнения к основному гл. ΓΡΑΦΉ (G1124) Писание. Обозначает любой конкретное место Писания (Lind...
IF HE CALLED THEM GODS, &C.— "If in the scripture, the authority of which you all acknowledge, they to whom the commandment of ruling God's people was given, are called _gods,_ and the _sons of God,_...
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...
If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; IF HE CALLED THEM GODS UNTO WHOM THE WORD OF GOD CAME, AND THE SCRIPTURE CANNOT BE BROKEN;...
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...
The word of God 'came' to the judges when He appointed them to their office....
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...
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...
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...
IF HE CALLED THEM GODS. — The argument is another example of Hillel’s famous _First Canon of Interpretation_ — that the greater may be inferred from the less. The pronoun “he” (_He_) refers probably t...
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_....
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...
If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be (l) broken; (l) Void and of no effect....
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
“ _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...
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...
35._To whom the word of God was addressed. _For Christ means that they were authorized by an undoubted command of God. Hence we infer that empires did not spring up at random, nor by the mistakes of m...
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...
IF HE CALLED THEM GODS, UNTO WHOM THE WORD OF GOD CAME,.... The Syriac version reads, "because the word of God came to them"; either the divine "Logos", the essential word, the Son of God, who appeare...
If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; Ver. 35. _Unto whom the word of God came_] That have their authority from God, whose substitutes and vicere...
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...
UNTO WHOM THE WORD OF GOD CAME; who were appointed and commissioned to act as his agents in ruling and administering justice in his stead among men. CANNOT BE BROKEN; cannot be set aside as speaking...
The Jews accuse Jesus of blasphemy:...
IF HE CALLED THEM GODS UNTO WHOM THE WORD OF GOD CAME, AND THE SCRIPTURE CANNOT BE BROKEN,...
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...
If God dignified those men (and many of them were also vile and sinful men) with the title of gods, because they had a commission to govern people according to the law of God; and none must contradict...
A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity "If," said He, "He called them gods to whom the words of God were given, and the Scriptures cannot be broken, ye say of Him whom the Father sanctified, an...
John 10:35 If G1487 called G2036 (G5627) them G1565 gods G2316 to G4314 whom G3739 word G3056 God...
‘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 10:35-36. IF HE CALLED THEM GODS, UNTO WHOM THE WORD OF GOD CAME, AND THE SCRIPTURE CANNOT BE BROKEN; SAY YE OF HIM, WHOM THE FATHER CONSECRATED, AND SENT INTO THE WORLD, THOU BLASPHEMEST; BECAUS...
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...
IF HE CALLED THEM GODS (ε εκεινους ειπεν θεους). Condition of first class, assumed as true. The conclusion (verse John 10:36) is υμεις λεγετε; ( DO YE SAY? ). As Jews (and rabbis) they are shut out...
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...
1 Chronicles 22:8; 1 Samuel 14:36; 1 Samuel 14:37; 1 Samuel 15:1;...
The Scripture [η γ ρ α φ η]. The passage of scripture. See on John 2:22; John 5:47. Broken [λ υ θ η ν α ι]. Literally, loosened. Wyc., undone. The word is characteristic of John. He uses it of the des...