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NASB | John 10:34 Jesus answered them, "Has it not been written in your Law, 'I SAID, YOU ARE GODS'? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 10:34 Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I SAID, YOU ARE GODS [human judges representing God, not divine beings]'? [Ps 82:6] |
Bible Question: In Genesis 3 Satan told Eve that if they ate from the tree they would be like Gods. They were gods weren't they? Or we are gods aren't we? |
Bible Answer: Being "like" gods is not quite the same as being God. Also of interest may be John 10:36-40 "36 can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated 16 and sent into the world blasphemes because I said, "I am the Son of God"? 37 If I do not perform my Father's works, do not believe me; 38 but if I perform them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may realize (and understand) that the Father is in me and I am in the Father." 39 (Then) they tried again to arrest him; but he escaped from their power. 40 He went back across the Jordan to the place where John first baptized, and there he remained. 15 [34] This is a reference to the judges of Israel who,since they exercised the divine prerogative to judge (Deut 1:17 , were called "gods"; cf Exodus 21:6 , besides Psalm 82:6 from which the quotation comes. |