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)

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.