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John 10:36
then what about the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? How then can you accuse Me of blasphemy for stating that I am the Son of God?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus addresses the Jews who have taken up stones to kill him (John 10:31), turning their own charge of blasphemy back on them with an a fortiori argument drawn from Psalm 82.
The words — ἡγίασεν (hēgiasen, "sanctified," G37) is the same root as Jeremiah 1:5's "set you apart"; the aorist marks a completed, deliberate act of the Father, not a vague quality.
The thread — The Father's sending appears in John 3:17 and the setting-apart in Jeremiah 1:5; John 5:17 ties the same Father to ongoing work that Jesus shares.
Why it lands — The verse removes the middle ground: if the Father's act of sanctifying and sending is real, then "Son of God" is not a claim Jesus invented but a title grounded in that act, and the objection collapses.
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The Greek words
King James Version
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?
Cross-references
- John 3:17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
- Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
- John 5:17 But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.”
- John 6:27 Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”
- John 10:30 I and the Father are one.”
- John 20:28 Thomas replied, “My Lord and my God!”
- John 20:31 But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.
- Psalms 2:2 The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:
- Psalms 2:6 “I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”
- Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,