Today we feel the really good Bible question from an international listener to the podcast.

Dear Pastor John, hello and thank you for this podcast.

My name is Beatrice and I live in Malaysia.

My question for you is about what the Bible means when it says you are gods.

Says this in Psalm 82 verse 6 and then Jesus quotes it again in John 10 verse 34, can you

explain to me what this means?

Here's the situation.

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

in fur that he's blaspheming by making himself equal with God.

So in verse 31, it says the Jews picked up stones to stone him.

Now that's a crisis because the hour for Jesus' death has not yet come.

Jesus is going to die when he has chosen to die and not a minute sooner.

No one takes my life from me, I lay it down of my own accord and so he has to somehow

defuse this critical moment where he's about to be stoned legally because the Jews could

stone people for blasphemy.

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.

So Jesus is going to deflect this threat in a couple of ways.

But first, he says, for which of my good works are you stoning me?

And they answer, it's not for your good works that we're stoning you, but for blasphemy

because you being a man make yourself God.

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