John 10:31-33 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Then the Jews took up stones— As a full proof in what sense our Lord's hearers understood him, we find that they took up stones, and were going to kill him, in obedience, as they supposed, to the law, Leviticus 24:14 which ordered the blasphemer to be stoned. Our Lord remonstrates against this violent proceeding in terms the most striking and pathetic. "In confirmation of my mission from my Father, I have worked many miracles, all of a beneficent kind, and most becoming the perfection of him who sent me. I have fed the hungry, I have healed the lame, I have cured the sick, I have given sight to the blind, I have cast out devils, I have raised the dead; for which of all these are ye going to stone me?"—But they, perverse, and never to be persuaded, reply, "We are going to punish thee with death for no good work, but for blasphemy;for though thou art a man, weak and mortal as we ourselves are, thou arrogantly assumest to thyself the power and majesty of God, and by laying claim to the incommunicable attributes of the Deity, makest thyself God." This they took to be the plain meaning of his assertion, that He and the Father were one, John 10:30.