Remember that saying and those elastic bracelets "What Would Jesus Do?" Do we ever really stop to think about it? I mean think about how we think and how act and react. Are we in line with how Christ would respond.
Now, in reading through the gospels, you know that the Pharisees hated Jesus and wanted to stone him for claiming that he was blaspheming and saying he was God when they didn't think he was. In John 10:31-33, the Pharisees said they were not mad at the works he did, but only at their accusations of his blaspheming. After the Pharisees picked up stones to stone him his response (instead of anger and threats and violence) was that of truth and a refocus. The Pharisees were schooled so to speak on who Jesus was and what he did. In verses 34-38, we see Jesus reaffirm him being in God and God working through him. He didn't back down and just give in. He didn't give a sarcastic answer, he said what was true. He also gave more evidence which serves as some what of a redirection. He tells them to look at the works he has done and also references scripture (Psalm 82:6) when he said "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods.'" He reminds them that the works he is doing are of God and speak to who he is, even if they didn't want to believe him.
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