Translation
The Jews answered Him, “Not for a good work do we stone you, but on account of blasphemy, and because you, being a man, make yourself the Mighty One.”
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THE SALVATION SENT BY YHVH answered them, “Don’t you find written in the Holy book you revere, the following quote: ‘I said, You are Mighty ones. You are imbued with power and authority to act on behalf of the one true God’”?
Footnotes
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Keep in mind that this conversation was most likely in Hebrew, the language of religious leaders such as Priests, Rabbis, Pharisees, Sadducees, teachers of the law, and scribes. The notion that Jesus spoke and taught in either Aramaic or Greek is coming under scrutiny and is not holding up well. The Hebrew word they would have used here was Elohim, which meant “mighty ones”. Jesus used the same Hebrew name in His response.