Translation
JESUS answered them, “Is it not written in the law
Go to footnote numberof you, ‘I said, You are mighty ones”?
Go to footnote numberParaphrase
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
1
While the Law in a strict sense referred to the Pentateuch, the first 5 books of the Old Testament, the term “torah” was sometimes used to refer to the entire Old Testament since the law was the highly revered part of the Old Testament. This quote comes from Psalm 82, which I am convinced has to do with human judges who were appointed and given authority to act under God’s authority.
2
The emphasis of this passage continues to be on the power to act, the power to make things happen. In the case of Jesus, that power was demonstrated through things like miracles. The judges Jesus referred to in His quote of Psalm 82 did not perform miracles, they only exercised the authority given them by making judicial decisions.