For blasphemy... thou makest thyself God.

They reply that they would stone him for blasphemy in that he made himself divine. This charge was often made against him. When he said, "Thy sins be forgiven thee," or spoke of God as his Father, or said that he and the Father were one, or when on trial before the Sanhedrim he declared that he was the Christ, the Son of God, it was uniformly pronounced blasphemy and it was on this charge that the Sanhedrim condemned him to death (Matthew 26:65.) Had Jesus been only. man his words would have been blasphemous; they were appropriate to the Son of God.

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