John 10:34 (WEB)
Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’?
Catechism · 1
“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.
Fathers and councils · 28
Tertullian
“If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not; but if I do, even if ye will not believe me, still believe the works; and know that I am in the Father, and the Father in me.”” — editor's note: Vers. 34–38.
Read the whole comment“When he mentions the fact that “it is written in the law,” how that the Creator would speak with other tongues and other lips, whilst confirming indeed the gift of tongues by such a mention, he yet cannot be thought to have affirmed that the gift was that of another god by his reference to the Creator’s prediction.” — editor's note: “Here, as in John x. 34; xii. 34; xv. 25, ‘the law’ is used for the Old Testament generally, instead of being, as usual, confined to the Pentateuch. The…
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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
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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
“If I do not the works of my father believe me not…that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”” — editor's note: John x. 34, 35, 36, 37, 38. Observe the variation in 34, and the omission in 38.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Thou deniest My Godhead, whereas I said, ‘Ye are gods, and ye are all the children of the Most Highest?’” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxii. 6; S. John x. 34 ff.
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Augustine of Hippo
“The Lord even takes note of this testimony in the Gospel, saying, “Is it not written in your Law, I have said, Ye are gods?”…It is not therefore because they are all good, but because “the word of God came to them,” that they were called gods.” — editor's note: John x. 34.
Read the whole comment“…sons of God,” and according to what the Lord Himself also mentioned, as declared in the law, “I said, Ye are gods; and all of you children of the Most High:” because He said, “He that believeth on me, believeth not on me,” to show that the whole extent of our faith in Christ should not be limited by His manhood.” — editor's note: Chap. x. 34; Ps. lxxxii. 6.
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John Chrysostom
“Ver.” — the author cites it
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Ephrem the Syrian
“Moses saw that he himself alone retained the brightness from God, and he looked for Him who came and multiplied gods by His teaching:” — editor's note: St. E. refers here to St. John x. 34, where the Word Himself teaches us that it was by His coming to them that Saints of old were called Gods.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“If I do not the works of the Father, believe Me not; but if I do, and ye will not believe Me, believe the works, that ye may know and be sure that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.” — editor's note: St. John x. 34–38.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“This, he asserts, is that which has been written: “I said, Ye are gods, and all children of the highest;” “If ye hasten to fly out of Egypt, and repair beyond the Red Sea into the wilderness,” that is, from earthly intercourse to the Jerusalem above, which is the…” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxii. 6; Luke vi. 35; John x. 34.
Read the whole comment“For thou hast become God: for whatever sufferings thou didst undergo while being a man, these He gave to thee, because thou wast of mortal mould, but whatever it is consistent with God to impart, these God has promised to bestow upon thee, because thou hast been deified, and begotten unto immortality.” — editor's note: [Compare John x. 34 with Rev. v. 10. Kings of the earth may be called “gods,” in a sense; ergo, etc.]
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Cyprian of Carthage
“But if I do not the works of my Father, believe me not; but if I do, and ye will not believe me, believe the works, and know that the Father is in me, and I in Him.”” — editor's note: John x. 34–38.
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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.
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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…
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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,
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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.
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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 · 13
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.30.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.30.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.30.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.30.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.30.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.30.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.30.
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).