If you read the passage of John 10:31-42, you might think Jesus is trying to save His skin so that doesn't get killed by the stone-prone religious leaders. But look a little deeper and see the visual depiction of this passage in "The Gospel of John" film, picking up at 2:05 on the clip:
Does it look like He is just making this up, quoting Psalm 82? He has poise, asking ironically, "I have done many good deeds, of which one are you wanting to stone me?" He is exasperated by their not understanding that He is God. "It is written in your own law that God said 'You are gods.'...How can you say that I blaspheme because I said I am the Son of God."
He is not afraid. He is saying, "Fine, don't believe Me, but believe the works that I do. Know once and for all that the Father is in Me and I am in the Father."
And then if that was not clear enough, He simply disappears from their midst.
Now, lest you have delusions of grandeur or more, delusions of deity, see Deut. 32:39; 2 Sam. 7:22; 1 Kings 8:60; 1 Chron. 17:20; Isa. 45:5, 14, 18, 21.
If you think you will be a god someday, see Isa. 43:10 and Isa 44:6.
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