John 10:31

John 10:31 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
• New International Version (NIV)Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him,
• English Standard Version (ESV)The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.

Context of John 10:31

29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. 30I and the Father are one.” Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone him. 32Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these works are you stoning me?” 33“We aren’t stoning you for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because you — being a man — make yourself God.”

John 10:31 word by word

Ἐβάστασαν πάλιν λίθους οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι, ἵνα λιθάσωσιν αὐτόν.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thenοὖνoun · therefore/thenG3767
• the JewsἸουδαῖοςIoudaios · JewG2453
• took upβαστάζωbastazō · to carryG941
• stonesλίθοςlithos · stoneG3037
• againπάλινpalin · againG3825
• toἵναhina · in order that/toG2443
• stoneλιθάζωlithazō · to stoneG3034
• himαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588

Cross-references for John 10:31

• John 5:18This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him: Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
• John 8:59So they picked up stones to throw at him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple.
• John 11:8“Rabbi,” the disciples told him, “just now the Jews tried to stone you, and you’re going there again?”
• Exodus 17:4Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What should I do with these people? In a little while they will stone me!”
• 1 Samuel 30:6David was in an extremely difficult position because the troops talked about stoning him, for they were all very bitter over the loss of their sons and daughters. But David found strength in the Lord his God.
• Matthew 21:35The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
• Matthew 23:35So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
• Acts 7:52Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.

Commentaries on John 10:31

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 31The Jews took up stones - To stone him as a blasphemer, Leviticus 24:14-16, because he said he was one with God. The evangelist adds the word again, because they had attempted to do this before, see John 8:59; but it seems they were prevented from doing this now by the following discourse.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 31The Jews took up stones - Stoning was the punishment of a blasphemer, Leviticus 24:14-16. They considered him guilty of blasphemy because he made himself equal with God, John 10:33. Again - They had before plotted against his life John 5:16, John 5:18, and once at least they had taken up stones to destroy him, John 8:59.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 31-38Verses 31-38 Christ's works of power and mercy proclaim him to be over all, God blessed for evermore, that all may know and believe He is in the Father, and the Father in Him. Whom the Father sends, he sanctifies. The holy God will reward, and therefore will employ, none but such as he makes holy. The Father was in the Son, so that by Divine power he wrought his miracles; the Son was so in the Father, that he knew the whole of His mind. This we cannot by…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 31-33The people understood what Jesus meant and wanted to kill him (see 10:33). The problem was not that Jesus performed good works, but that he claimed to be God (see 6:42, 60; 7:29–30). Blasphemy (speaking in a way that dishonors God) was punishable by death under the law of Moses. The required punishment was stoning (see Leviticus 24:23; John 8:59).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3131. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him--and for precisely the same thing as before (Joh 8:58, 59).Read the comment

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Commentaries on John 10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings