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18 For this reason the Jews tried all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God.(A)

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18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him;(A) not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.(B)

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[a]The Jews answered,(A) “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”

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Footnotes

  1. 19:7 Made himself the Son of God: this question was not raised in John’s account of the Jewish interrogations of Jesus as it was in the synoptic account. Nevertheless, see Jn 5:18; 8:53; 10:36.

The Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die,(A) because he claimed to be the Son of God.”(B)

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16 whoever utters the name of the Lord in a curse shall be put to death.(A) The whole community shall stone that person; alien and native-born alike must be put to death for uttering the Lord’s name in a curse.

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16 anyone who blasphemes(A) the name of the Lord is to be put to death.(B) The entire assembly must stone them. Whether foreigner or native-born, when they blaspheme the Name they are to be put to death.

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