Commentaries:
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Leviticus 24:16.
Leviticus 24:16
Excerpted from: John (Part Seventeen)In Leviticus 24:16, it is made very clear that the penalty for blasphemy is to be stoned to death. It is interesting that the Jews understood this so well. Here was an Old Testament scripture, way back in Leviticus, and they knew that the penalty for blasphemy was death. But they could not make the same connection to the words and to the deeds that made it so clear that He was the Messiah. They could believe what they wanted to believe, but that which they chose not to believe, they did not believe.
Leviticus 24:13-16
Excerpted from: The Trial of JesusThat is the law that these Jews were supposedly using. What happened by the jurisprudence of the Jews—the Jewish courts—was that you were only guilty of blasphemy if you cursed God or if you said the ineffable name of God. (That is, the YHWH.) That was not part of what is said there in Leviticus 24. They added that—that you could not say the name of God because it was so holy. But that was not part of the original law. They added that.
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