John 10:33 (WEB)
The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
Catechism · 3
The Mysteries of Christ's Life
“So miracles strengthen faith in the One who does his Father's works; they bear witness that he is the Son of God.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 10:31-38.
Jesus and Israel
“He is accused of blasphemy and false prophecy, religious crimes which the Law punished with death by stoning.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mk 2:7; Jn 5:18; 7:12, 52; 8:59; 10:31, 33.
“By forgiving sins Jesus either is blaspheming as a man who made himself God's equal, or is speaking the truth and his person really does make present and reveal God's name.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 5:18; 10:33; 17:6,26.
Fathers and councils · 27
Athanasius of Alexandria
“‘Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from My Father, for which of those works do ye stone Me?” — editor's note: John x. 32–38
Read the whole comment“Theirs it was to say, ‘Why dost Thou, being a man, make Thyself God?’ and their disciple is the Samosatene; whence to his followers with reason does he teach his heresy.” — editor's note: ἐκείνων, John x. 33
Read the whole comment“Who, accordingly, is so senseless as to say to the Lord: ‘Leave the Body that I may worship Thee;’ or so impious as to join the senseless Jews in saying, on account of the Body, ‘Why dost Thou, being a man, make Thyself God?’” — editor's note: John x. 33.
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Tertullian
“…not even you deny that Christ did, inasmuch as you were wont to say that, “on account of the works ye stoned Him not, but because He did them on the Sabbaths.”” — editor's note: See John v. 17, 18, compared with x. 31–33.
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Justin Martyr
“…and show us that the Spirit of prophecy admits another God besides the Maker of all things, taking care not to speak of the sun and moon, which, it is written, God has given to the nations to worship as gods; and oftentimes the prophets, employing this manner of speech, say that ‘thy God is a God of gods, and a Lord…” — editor's note: Deut. iv. 19, an apparent [i.e., evident] misinterpretation of the passage. [But see St. John x. 33–36.]
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“This is all that was looked at by the Jews, and therefore they said to him “For a good work we stone Thee not but for blasphemy and because that Thou being a man makest Thyself God,” and again “This man is not of God because He keepeth not the Sabbath Day.”” — editor's note: John x. 33
Read the whole comment“And when they replied: “For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because that thou being a man makest thyself God,” He added “It is written in your law I said ye are gods.” — editor's note: John x. 33
Read the whole comment““For a good work we stone thee not but for blasphemy, and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.”” — editor's note: John x. 33
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John Chrysostom
“Ver.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“So also when they said, “Thou blasphemest, because thou makest thyself God” ( c. x. 33 ), from equality of works He established this thing.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…in another case again, when they were saying, “For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God,”neither in that instance did He put down this opinion, but again confirmed it, saying, “If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not; but if I do, though…” — editor's note: John x. 33.
Read the whole comment“…He keepeth not the Sabbath day;”and again, “For a good work we stone Thee not, but for blasphemy, and because that Thou, being a man, makest Thyself God:”that both the charges might be shown to spring from envy, and He be proved not liable to either; and that neither is His conduct a transgression of the law,…” — editor's note: John x. 33.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“The Jews answered Him, For a good work we stone Thee not, but for blasphemy; and because Thou, being a man, makest Thyself God.” — editor's note: St. John x. 31–33.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
At this speech, I and My Father are one, the Jews could not restrain their rage, but ran to take up stones, after their hardhearted way: Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
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The heretics now, as unbelieving and rebellious against our Lord in heaven, shew their impious hatred by the stones, i. e. the words they cast at Him; as if they would drag Him down again from His throne to the cross.
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Our Lord remonstrates with them; Many good works have I shewed you from My Father, shewing that they had no just reason for their anger.
Read the whole comment - Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John
Healing of the sick, teaching, miracles. He shewed them of the Father, because He sought His Father’s glory in all of them. For which of these works do ye stone Me? They confess, though reluctantly, the benefit they…
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This is their answer to the speech, I and My Father are one. Lo, the Jews understood what the Arians understand not. For they are angry for this very reason, that they could not conceive but that by saying, I and My…
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The Jew saith, Thou being a man, the Arian, Thou being a creature: but both say, Thou makest Thyself God. The Arian supposes a God of a new and different substance, a God of another kind, or not a God at all. He…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Our Lord did not correct the Jews, as if they misunderstood His speech, but confirmed and defended it, in the very sense in which they had taken it. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law,
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
i. e. the Law given to you, I have said, Ye are Gods? (Ps. 82:6) God saith this by the Prophet in the Psalm. Our Lord calls all those Scriptures the Law generally, though elsewhere He spiritually distinguishes the…
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Before proving that He and His Father are one, He answers the absurd and foolish charge brought against Him, that He being man made Himself God. When the Law applied this title to holy men, and the indelible word of…
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Or sanctified, i. e. in begetting, gave Him holiness, begat Him holy. If men to whom the word of God came were called gods, much more the Word of God Himself is God. If men by partaking of the word of God were made…
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Or, sanctified, i. e. set apart to be sacrificed for the world: a proof that He was God in a higher sense than the rest. To save the world is a divine work, not that of a man made divine by grace.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Or, we must consider this a speech of humility, made to conciliate men. After it he leads them to higher things; If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not; which is as much as to say, that He is not inferior…
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What place hath adoption, or the mere conception of a name then, that we should not believe Him to be the Son of God by nature, when He tells us to believe Him to be the Son of God, because the Father’s nature shewed…
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The Son doth not say, The Father is in Me, and I in Him, in the sense in which men who think and act aright may say the like; meaning that they partake of God’s grace, and are enlightened by His Spirit. The…
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Cross-references · 6
Cited together in Hilary of Poitiers on John 10:31–38 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 55.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 10:31–38 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 55.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 10:31–38 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 10:31–38 (3) (Catena Aurea).