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King James Bible - John 10:36

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SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:36

¿a quien el Padre santific� y envi� al mundo, vosotros decís: T� blasfemas, porque dije: Hijo de Dios soy?

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John Gill's Bible Commentary

Ver. 36. Say ye of him whom the Father hath sanctified , etc.] Not by making his human nature pure and holy, and free from all sin, and by bestowing the holy Spirit on him without measure, though both true; but these were upon, or after his mission into the world; whereas sanctification here, designs something previous to that, and respects the eternal separation of him to his office, as Mediator, in the counsel, purposes, and decrees of God, and in the covenant of his grace, being pre-ordained thereunto, before the foundation of the world; which supposes his eternal existence as a divine person, and tacitly proves his true and proper deity: and sent into the world ; in human nature, to obtain eternal redemption and salvation his people: to save them from sin, Satan, the world, law, hell and death, which none but God could do: thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God ; for what he had said in ( John 10:30) is equivalent to it; and in it he was rightly understood by the Jews, and what he here and afterwards says confirms it: the argument is what the Jews call rmwjw lq , �from the lesser to the greater�, and stands thus; that if mere frail mortal men, and some of them wicked men, being made rulers and judges in the earth are called gods, by God himself, to whom the word of God came in time, and constituted them gods, or governors, but for a time; and this is a fact stands recorded in Scripture, which cannot be denied or disproved, then surely it cannot be blasphemy in Christ, to assert himself to be the Son of God, who existed as a divine person from all eternity; and was so early set apart to the office of prophet, priest, and king; and in the fulness of time was sent into this world, to be the author of eternal salvation to the sons of men.

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Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 31-38 - Christ's works of power and mercy proclaim him to be over all, God blessed for evermore, that all may know and believe He is in the Father, and the Father in Him. Whom the Father sends, he sanctifies The holy God will reward, and therefore will employ, none but such a he makes holy. The Father was in the Son, so that by Divine power he wrought his miracles; the Son was so in the Father, that he knew the whole of His mind. This we cannot by searching find out to perfection but we may know and believe these declarations of Christ.

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Greek Textus Receptus

ον 3739 R-ASM ο 3588 T-NSM πατηρ 3962 N-NSM ηγιασεν 37 5656 V-AAI-3S και 2532 CONJ απεστειλεν 649 5656 V-AAI-3S εις 1519 PREP τον 3588 T-ASM κοσμον 2889 N-ASM υμεις 5210 P-2NP λεγετε 3004 5719 V-PAI-2P οτι 3754 CONJ βλασφημεις 987 5719 V-PAI-2S οτι 3754 CONJ ειπον 2036 5627 V-2AAI-1S υιος 5207 N-NSM του 3588 T-GSM θεου 2316 N-GSM ειμι 1510 5748 V-PXI-1S

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Vincent's NT Word Studies

36. Sanctified (hgiasen). Better, as Rev., in margin, consecrated. The fundamental idea of the word is separation and consecration to the service of Deity. See note on Acts xxvi. 10, on the kindred adjective agiov, holy or consecrated.

The Son of God. There is no article. Its absence directs us to the character rather than to the person of Jesus. The judges, to whom the quotation in ver. 35 refers, were called gods, as being representatives of God. See Exod. xxi. 6; xxii. 8, where the word rendered judges is elohim, gods. In Exod. xxii. 28, gods appears in the A.V. 35 Jesus' course of reasoning is, if these judges could be called gods, how do I blaspheme in calling myself Son of God, since the Father has consecrated me and sent me on a special mission to the world?