Verse 33

This was their answer: We are not stoning you for a good work but for evil words; because being a man you make yourself God.

Referenced Verses

  • John 5:18 : 18 For this cause the Jews had an even greater desire to put Jesus to death, because not only did he not keep the Sabbath but he said God was his Father, so making himself equal with God.
  • Lev 24:16 : 16 And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death.
  • John 10:30 : 30 I and my Father are one.
  • Rom 13:1 : 1 Let everyone put himself under the authority of the higher powers, because there is no power which is not of God, and all powers are ordered by God.
  • Phil 2:6 : 6 To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;
  • 1 Kgs 21:10 : 10 And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death.
  • Ps 82:6 : 6 I said, You are gods; all of you are the sons of the Most High:
  • Lev 24:14 : 14 Take the curser outside the tent-circle; and let all in whose hearing the words were said put their hands on his head, and let him be stoned by all the people.