KJV King James Version
Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
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John 10:36
Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
then what about the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? How then can you accuse Me of blasphemy for stating that I am the Son of God?
WEB World English Bible
do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’
ASV American Standard Version
say ye of him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
of him whom the Father did sanctify, and send to the world, do ye say—Thou speakest evil, because I said, Son of God I am?
Surrounding context — John 10
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father [is] in me, and I in him.
39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ὃνG3739 · hos, hēwhichὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoπατὴρG3962 · patērfatherἡγίασενG37 · hagiazōto sanctifyκαὶG2532 · kaiandἀπέστειλενG649 · apostellōto sendεἰςG1519 · eistowardτὸνG3588 · hothe/this/whoκόσμον,G2889 · kosmosworldὑμεῖςG4771 · suyouλέγετεG3004 · legōto sayὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatβλασφημεῖς,G987 · blasphēmeōto blasphemeὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatεἶπον·G2036 · eiponto sayυἱὸςG5207 · uhiossonτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoθεοῦG2316 · theosGodεἰμι;G1510 · eimito be
Cross-references
John 3:17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.Jeremiah 1:5Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.John 5:17-18But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.John 6:27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.John 20:31But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.John 10:30-33I and [my] Father are one.John 20:28And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.Romans 1:4And declared [to be] the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:John 6:57As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.Isaiah 61:1-3The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to [them that are] bound;John 17:8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received [them], and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.John 6:38For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.Romans 9:5Whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.Luke 1:35And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.Psalm 2:6-12Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.John 17:21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.John 9:35-37Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?Psalm 2:2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, [saying],
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