John 10:35 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; ”

• John 10:35 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Jesus answered them - The answer of Jesus consists of two parts. The first John 10:34-36 shows that they ought not to object to his use of the word God, even if he were no more than a man. The...

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• John 10:35 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  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.

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• John 10:35 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 Dedicat...

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• John 10:35 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  cannot . is not (Greek. ou. App-105) able to. broken . Compare John 7:23 .

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• John 10:35 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  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 mist...

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• John 10:35 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; Unto whom the word of God came - Bishop Pearce thinks that "the word λογος, here, is put for λογος κρισεως,...

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• John 10:35 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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...

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• John 10:35 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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;

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• John 10:35 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• John 10:35 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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 probabl...

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• John 10:35 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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,...

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• John 10:35 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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 bl...

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• John 10:35 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 w...

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• John 10:35 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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, sayin...

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• John 10:35 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 appe...

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• John 10:35 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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 vic...

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• John 10:35 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• John 10:35 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 enter...

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• John 10:35 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ's Conference with the Jews.       22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.   23 And Jesus walked...

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• John 10:35 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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 contradic...

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• John 10:35 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Feast of Dedication ( John 10:22-42 ).

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• John 10:35 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 10:22-38 . 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...

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• John 10:35 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 Abr...

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• John 10:35 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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 apparent...

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• John 10:35 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION John 10:1-43 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 malign...

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• John 10:35 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Jews accuse Jesus of blasphemy:

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• John 10:35 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 22:8 ; 1 Samuel 14:36 ; 1 Samuel 14:37 ; 1 Samuel 15:1 ; 1 Samuel 23:9-11 ; 1 Samuel 28:6 ; 1 Samuel 30:8 ; 2 Chronicles 11:2 ; 2 Chronicles 11:3 ; 2 Chronicles 19:2 ; 2 Samue...

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• John 10:35 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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...

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