Give justice to the weak and the fatherless So, verse 3 of the Psalm says (this is God talking to that assembly of gods),
And God is about to pronounce judgment on them, because they are using their authority, behind the authorities of the world, in order to support injustice rather than justice. Now, who are they? These are so-called “gods,” and are angelic beings, which the New Testament calls “principalities and powers in heavenly places” (Ephesians 3:10 KJV). In the midst of the gods he holds judgment. God has taken his place in the divine council So, what’s he doing? Let’s go back and read Psalm 82. Is it not written in your Law, “I said, you are gods”? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came - and Scripture cannot be broken - do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, “You are blaspheming,” because I said, “I am the Son of God”? (John 10:34–36) Principalities and Powers In other words, from all the things that Jesus has said - including calling God his Father and saying that he and the Father are one, and by implication, therefore, that he’s the unique Son of God - they infer, and they infer rightly, that he’s treating himself as the Son of God in a unique way, only they call it a blasphemous way.Īnd now Jesus is going to defuse the situation a second way, and make his escape, which is what he does in verse 39: “He escaped from their hands.” How did he do that? He does it by quoting Psalm 82:6. And they answer, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God” (John 10:33). So, Jesus is going to deflect this threat in a couple of ways.įirst, he says, “I have shown you many good works from the Father for which of them are you going to stone me?” (John 10:32). He’s got to somehow get out of this situation so that he can make his way, in his own time, to the kind of death he intends to die. Way of EscapeĪnd so, he has to somehow defuse this critical moment, or he’s about to be stoned legally because the Jews could stone people for blasphemy. Jesus is going to die when he has chosen to die and not a minute sooner: “No one takes from me, but I lay it down of my own accord” (John 10:18). So, in verse 31, it says, “The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.” Now, that’s a crisis because the hour for Jesus’s death has not yet come. In John 10, Jesus has just said (in verse 30), “I and the Father are one.” And now, the Jewish leaders who hear him say this, putting it together with everything else that he’s been saying, infer that he’s blaspheming by making himself equal with God. My question for you is about what the Bible means when it says, ‘You are gods.’ It says this in Psalm 82:6, and then Jesus quotes it again in John 10:34. “Dear Pastor John, hello to you and thank you for this podcast! My name is Beatrice, and I live in Malaysia. Today we field a really good Bible question from an international listener to the podcast.
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