John 10:35,36 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

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 God, on account of their high office, and the inspiration of the Spirit which was bestowed on them but sparingly, can you with reason say of him whom God the Father sent into the world on the grand errand of saving the human race, and whom he hath set apart for that work by giving him the Spirit without measure, (Ch. John 3:34.) Thou blasphemest, because he said I am the Son of God." Some give the argument another turn, thus, if they to whom the word of God, or the revelation of his will came, are called Gods in scripture, how dare you say to the Word of God himself, whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world; that is, by whom all the various revelations of the divine will have been made to men;—how dare you say to such a Person, on such an occasion, Thou blasphemest. Jesus was charged here by the Jews with ascribing Divinity to his human nature; and in reply he shews, that calling himself the Son of God, did not imply that; and that his works proved such an union of his human nature with the divine—with his supreme godhead,—as he had asserted.

John 10:35-36

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?