Discovery BoxJohn 10:32-33 
Context10:32 Jesus said to them, 1 “I have shown you many good deeds 2 from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?” 10:33 The Jewish leaders 3 replied, 4 “We are not going to stone you for a good deed 5 but for blasphemy, 6 because 7 you, a man, are claiming to be God.” 8
1 tn Grk “Jesus answered them.”
2 tn Or “good works.”
3 tn Or “the Jewish authorities”; Grk “the Jews.” Here again the phrase refers to the Jewish leaders. See the notes on the phrase “Jewish people” in v. 19 and “Jewish leaders” in vv. 24, 31.
4 tn Grk “answered him.”
5 tn Or “good work.”
6 sn This is the first time the official charge of blasphemy is voiced openly in the Fourth Gospel (although it was implicit in John 8:59).
7 tn Grk “and because.”
8 tn Grk “you, a man, make yourself to be God.”
