Verse John 19:7. We have a law] In Leviticus 24:14-3, we find that blasphemers of God were to be put to death; and the chief priests having charged Jesus with blasphemy, they therefore voted that he deserved to die. See Matthew 26:65-40. They might refer also to the law against false prophets, Deuteronomy 18:20.

The Son of God.] It is certain that the Jews understood this in a very peculiar sense. When Christ called himself the Son of God, they understood it to imply positive equality to the Supreme Being: and, if they were wrong, our Lord never attempted to correct them.

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