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You are gods?

And all children of the most high.

John 10:31–42

Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?”

The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.”

Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods” ’? If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.” Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.

And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing at first, and there He stayed. Then many came to Him and said, “John performed no sign, but all the things that John spoke about this Man were true.” And many believed in Him there.

Once again, the crowd reaction removes all doubt about what Jesus said and meant. He is claiming deity. They understood that He is claiming to be God, and He does not deny that they understood Him correctly.

But this passage stands out because of Jesus’s unique counter-argument, which references Psalm 82.

I said, “You are gods,
And all of you are children of the Most High.
But you shall die like men,
And fall like one of the princes.”
— Psalm 82:6–7

Jesus’s point is that if Psalm 82 can call people gods, how is it blasphemous to call oneself God? Furthermore, Jesus’s works give Him more ground to call Himself God than what most folks have. If humans can, in any sense, be called gods, that title must be even more reasonable in Jesus’s case.

It’s a good argument, but these people don’t follow it.

So when He ends with, “the Father is in Me, and I in Him,” they just get even angrier, and Jesus slips out.


So Jesus returns to the place of His baptism. The crowds there seem to have a completely different attitude. They’re familiar with John’s testimony and they compare that to the observations.

John performed no sign, but all the things that John spoke about this Man were true.

Thus they draw the correct (even obvious) conclusion.

Jesus is who John said He is.


These Monday—Friday DEEPs are written by Mike Slay. The Saturday DEEPs are written by Matt Richardson. To subscribe to all the DEEPs click here:

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Except as indicated, Scripture taken from the New King James Version. © Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. ESV stands for the English Standard Version. © Copyright 2001 by Crossway. Used by permission. All rights reserved. NIV stands for The Holy Bible, New International Version®. © Copyright 1973 by International Bible Society. Used by permission. All rights reserved. KJV stands for the King James Version.

Mike Slay

As a mathematician, inventor, and ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in America, Mike Slay brings an analytical, conversational, and even whimsical approach to the daily study of God's Word.

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