John 10:31

John 10:31 in other versions

• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Once again the people picked up stones to kill him.

Context of John 10:31

29My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. 30I and my Father are one. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? 33The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

John 10:31 word by word

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

• 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 5:18Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
• John 8:59Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
• John 11:8His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?
• Exodus 17:4And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
• 1 Samuel 30:6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.
• Matthew 21:35And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
• Matthew 23:35That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
• Acts 7:52Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

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