BLASPHEMY

John 10:31-42
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust.

Jesus Claims to Be The Son of God

31 Once again the people picked up stones to kill him. 32 Jesus said, “At my Father’s direction I have done many good works. For which one are you going to stone me?”

33 They replied, “We’re stoning you not for any good work, but for blasphemy! You, a mere man, claim to be God.”

34 Jesus replied, “It is written in your own Scriptures that God said to certain leaders of the people, ‘I say, you are gods!’ 35 And you know that the Scriptures cannot be altered. So if those people who received God’s message were called ‘gods,’ 36 why do you call it blasphemy when I say, ‘I am the Son of God’? After all, the Father set me apart and sent me into the world. 37 Don’t believe me unless I carry out my Father’s work. 38 But if I do his work, believe in the evidence of the miraculous works I have done, even if you don’t believe me. Then you will know and understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.”

39 Once again they tried to arrest him, but he got away and left them. 40 He went beyond the Jordan River near the place where John was first baptizing and stayed there awhile. 41 And many followed him. “John didn’t perform miraculous signs,” they remarked to one another, “but everything he said about this man has come true.” 42 And many who were there believed in Jesus.


The ‘seminary’ definition of blasphemy is speech which is defamatory of Devine Majesty. Jesus spoke (Matt. 12:31-32) of anyone with evidence before their eyes of this Devine Majesty, who gives credit for it to Satan, as being beyond God’s reach and hopeless.

Jesus was no blasphemer. When He spoke of the good works He did, He was quick to give credit to His Father … my Father’s direction … the Father set me apart … I carry out my Father’s work … I do His work … the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.

When we do a good work, let us be careful and quick to give God the glory, just as Jesus did!