John 10:30 I and the Father are one.
We have been over this before.
"I and the father are one" - merely means in agreement. Just like saying I and the President are one. Or I and my husband are one.
Joh 10:15
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Joh 10:24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt?
If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. - (The Messiah - not a God.)
Joh 10:25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that
I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
Joh 10:29 My
Father, which gave
them me, is greater than all; and no
man is able to pluck
them out of my Father's hand.
Joh 10:30
I and my Father are one.
Joh 10:32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you
from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
Joh 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.
Joh 10:34 Jesus answered them,
Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? - (actually Theos - also meaning Chosen, Anointed, Magistrates, etc.)
Joh 10:35 If
he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
Joh 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?
Joh 10:37
If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
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In John 10 Jesus is not claiming to be GOD, - he has challenged the Priest Judges, saying he is
the Anointed, Judge, or Magistrate. The Messiah was to bring the end and
FINAL JUDGMENT!
When they claim he blasphemes,
he quotes from Psalm 82 - Which is a whole section on bad judges, where in
Psalm 82:6 they are told
"I said, 'You are (Elohiym), And all of you are the sons of the Most High."
Elohiym as has been mentioned many times - does not just mean gods - and in this case it is saying they shall be righteous Judges over the Israelites.
Jesus is saying (as per the OT quote) He is a/or
THE Anointed Judge/Magistrate.
John 10:34 Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I said, you are theos?
Both Elohiym in the Hebrew and theos in the greek have the meaning Judge/Magistrate, as well as god.
This is obviously the meaning as the OT people aren't GODS. And note "they" like Jesus, are "sons of the most high."
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"
Ye are gods (
theoi este). Another direct quotation after
eipa but without
hoti.
The judges of Israel abused their office and God is represented in
Psa_82:6 as
calling them "gods" (theoi, elohim) because they were God’s representatives. See the same use of
elohim in Exo 21:6, Exo 22:9, Exo 22:28. Jesus meets the rabbis on their own ground in a thoroughly Jewish way." -
Robertson's WORD Pictures of the New Testament."
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John 10:34-36
"Is it not written in your law — in
Psa_82:6,
respecting judges or magistrates.
Ye are gods — being the
official representatives and
commissioned agents of God." -
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown, Commentary.
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"In your law - Psa_82:6. The word "law" here, is used to include the Old Testament.
I said - The Psalmist said, or God said by the Psalmist.
Ye are gods - This was
said of magistrates on account of the dignity and honor of their office, and
it shows that the Hebrew word translated "god," אלהים̀elohiym, in that place might be applied to man. Such a use of the word is, however, rare. See instances in Exo 7:1; Exo 4:16." -
Albert Barnes Notes On the Bible.
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Exo 7:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god (Elohiym) to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
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