¹⁶ Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord must be put to death;^(A) the whole community is to stone him. If he blasphemes the Name, he is to be put to death, whether the resident alien or the native.

⁷ “We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law he ought to die,^(A) because he made himself the Son of God.”^(B)