The Darkness Turns to Light

¹⁹ When someone tells you to consult^(A) mediums and spiritists,^(B) who whisper and mutter,^(C) should not a people inquire^(D) of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? ²⁰ Consult God’s instruction^(E) and the testimony of warning.^(F) If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light^(G) of dawn.

³³ “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”^(A)

³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law,^(B) ‘I have said you are “gods”’^[a]?^{(C) 35} If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God^(D) came—and Scripture cannot be set aside^(E)— ³⁶ what about the one whom the Father set apart^(F) as his very own^(G) and sent into the world?^(H) Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?^(I)