Bible Commentary on John 10:36?

Question

In John 10:36, we read the following words of Jesus:

“Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?”

The transliteration of this verse in Greek is as follows

hon ho Pateer heegiasen kai apesteilen eis ton kosmon humeis legete hoti Blasfeemeis, hoti eipon, Huios tou Theou eimi?

The word heegiasen is a derivative of hagiazo, which the translators of the KJV Bible translated as “sanctified”. We read the definition of hagiazo as follows:

Strong’s Number: 37
Transliterated: hagiazo
Phonetic: hag-ee-ad’-zo

Text: from 40; to make holy, i.e. (ceremonially) purify or consecrate; (mentally) to venerate: –hallow, be holy, sanctify.

The word “sanctified” comes from the Latin word sanctus meaning, “holy”. Hence, the word “sanctified” means, “made holy”. Since God is Eternally Holy, and we see that Jesus is claiming that he was made Holy by God, how could one claim Jesus to be GOD, from the beginning? If Jesus was indeed “made holy”, it would be undeniable that he is subject to “The Father” (God Almighty) and wouldn’t that mean a big blow to the Divinity of Jesus?

Answer 1

Jesus is not the Almighty God. He never claimed to be and he always refered to someone higher than himself. He said he came to do that ones will and he never does anything out of his own initiative. Anyone who claims Jesus to be the Almighty God should go and read the bible again - and very carefully this time.

John17:3 - Jesus sent by God
John14:28 - Father greater
Philippians 2: 5-11. Never made himself equal to God

And many other parts...

Answer 2

The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version

With Challoner Revisions 1749-52
1899 Edition of the John Murphy Company

IMPRIMATUR:
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899.

Pope Damasus assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Roman Council in 382 A.D. He commissioned St. Jerome to translate the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin, which became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official version, in 1546.

The DR New Testament was first published by the English College at Rheims in 1582 A.D. The DR Old Testament was first published by the English College at Douay in 1609 A.D. The first King James Version was not published until 1611. This online DRV contains all 73 books, including the seven Deutero-Canonical books (erroneously called Apocrypha by Protestants). These seven books were included in the 1611 KJV, but not in later KJV Bibles.

The whole Douay-Rheims Bible was revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749-1752 A.D. The notes included in the text were written by Dr. Challoner.

The DR Bible was photographically reproduced from the 1899 edition of the John Murphy Company, Baltimore, Maryland, by Tan Books in 1971. Eventually, this edition was optically scanned to produce a large text file which this publisher used for creating this website, with the aid of text-processing software.

One important goal of this project was to preserve the original text "as is", without making any changes in the wording, because the original text had the Imprimatur of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dated Sept 1st 1899.

The text file was checked quite thoroughly by software written by the publisher for punctuation errors and verses out of order. The index was humanly checked for misspelled words and the corrections were made to the text. However, some spelling errors may still be present in the text. Many verses were out of order in the original file. These have been corrected.

Every effort was made to ensure that this online version is an exact match to the original printed version. No words were added or ommitted from the text, except for correcting errors caused by the scanning process. No words were rearranged. No verse numbers were changed, except in the case of Psalm 9.

Psalm 9 originally contained 21 verses and there were 2 versions of Psalm 10, numbering 1-18 and 1-8. This obviously caused a conflict, so it was decided to make the first Psalm 10 as the last part of Psalm 9 and renumber the verses 22-39. This retains the same numbering as all the Douay Rheims. Note, in the Protestant Bibles the numbering of Psalms 10 through 146 differs by one.

Answer 3

Jesus was subject unto his Father, Jesus was Born Holy, He did not have to repent or anything like that, Jesus was The only begotten Son of God, Therefore after the millennium, Jesus will hand over all power back to his father & Jesus will then become our elder Brother, This does not change the divinity of Jesus

Answer 4

Jesus the Way to the Father
5Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"
6Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you really knew me, you would know[b] my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."

8Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."

9Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 10Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. 12I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. 14You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

John 14:5-14

There is no doubt of Jesus divinity or that he and God are one and the same. Just as we have a body, soul and spirit, so does God, we were created in His image. Soul (Father), Body (Christ), Spirit (Holy Spirit). Hope this helps you to understand.

Answer 5

Well, you are right.
God and Christ are indeed two separate beings.
Everywhere in the NT depicts that.
He even said, "Not my will, but thine be done", and so He suffered accordingly.
He then said on the cross, "My God. My God, Why hast thou forsaken me??"

They are certainly separate individuals.
Plus after Adam partook in Eden, the Gods said, "He is become as one of us... ".

Now to your question:
Yes; Being the Son, He always said that He was inferior to the Father.
Perhaps, He provides a good lesson for us in our attitudes to our Fathers.

But Sons do grow and develop, and can become as ther fathers.

Jesus was the Only Begotten in the Flesh.
As such He was the Son of God, the Father, and was God, the Son ... but a God, nevertheless, despite that Hebrews said, "Yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered."

He became perfect.
He wasn't born perfect, but He was innocent and pure and remained absolutely sinless and spotless throughout life, until He took upon Him the sins and grievances of others.
Then He was capable of death.

Answer 6

John 10:30, 31 the context shows that

Jesus clarified his "godship" by comparing himself to human judges at Ps 82:6. (John 10:34,35)

one of the difinitions of "god" is might one.

Moses is said to be God to Pharaoh, (Ex 7:1)
An angel is said to be God (Judges 13:21,22)
Jesus is said to God. (Isa 9:6)

None of these references are inconflict with Jehovah being only true God, or God Almighty.

Moses, the angel, and Jesus are mighty ones who serve as Jehovah's spokesman. (John 1:1)

When the KJV at John 1:3 says everything was made "by" him, Strong's shows the Greek work translated as by really means "channel" so Jesus was the channel that Jehovah used to create all things.

This is why it is said the Jesus was with God, and is not God, because Jehovah is the only Creator.

When Jesus said if you see me you've seen the Father, is because Jesus is the image of God.
2 Cor 4:4.

If you have any other belief about Jesus you are being blinded by Satan

Answer 7

Sanctified in the original language also means set apart.

Answer 8

No it isn't a blow to Jesus divinity just a blow to religious people that don't rightly divide the word.Evidently you took the time to study this out.(clap,clap).Good for you.

Answer 9

No, this does not make him less than God. All he is saying is that he is set apart and holy. His works and miracles attested to who he was.

Answer 10

You've just given me more reason to believe that God and Christ are two separate beings.