Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
For a good work we stone thee not (peri kalou ergou ou liqazomen). "Concerning a good deed we are not stoning thee." Flat denial that the healing of the blind man on the Sabbath had led them to this attempt (John 8:59) in spite of the facts.
But for blasphemy (alla peri blasfhmiav). See Acts 26:7 where peri with the genitive is also used with egkaloumai for the charge against Paul. This is the only example in John of the word blasfhmia (cf. Matthew 12:31).
And because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God (kai oti su anqrwpov wn poieiv seauton qeon). In John 5:18 they stated the charge more accurately: "He called God his own Father, making himself equal with God." That is, he made himself the Son of God. This he did beyond a doubt. But was it blasphemy? Only if he was not the Son of God. The penalty for blasphemy was death by stoning (Leviticus 24:16; I Kings 21:10, I Kings 21:13).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 10:33:
John 5:18
John 8:53
John 10:31
Acts 5:26
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