John 10:33 · World English Bible
John 10:33 Meaning The Jews Answered Him
The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
What does John 10:33 mean?
The charge of blasphemy is the mind's old refusal to hear that man himself is the power he has been worshipping. To say a man makes himself God sounds like an outrage only to the state that still pictures God as someone else, somewhere else.
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The charge of blasphemy is the mind's old refusal to hear that man himself is the power he has been worshipping. To say a man makes himself God sounds like an outrage only to the state that still pictures God as someone else, somewhere else. The awareness of being in each person is that very power, and to claim it is not arrogance but recognition of what was always so.
The stones are the reaction of everything in a person that clings to smallness, that would rather kill the thought than let it stand. This resistance is not an enemy from outside; it is the state a person passes through on the way to accepting his own identity. What the crowd calls blasphemy is the one truth the whole account was written to deliver. The man is not reaching above himself; he is at last naming what he is.
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Live John 10:33 today
- Say something true and large about yourself today, quietly, where no one can hear, and stay with the discomfort instead of taking it back.
- When someone cuts you down to size, out of habit or affection, accept the words kindly and do not accept the size. You can let a comment pass without letting it define you.
- When your own mind starts throwing stones, who do you think you are, be gentle with it. That voice is not an enemy; it is just the part of you still used to being small.
What would you have to stop apologizing for, to be what you already are?
The same truth in other traditions
Upanishads
The great saying is simply this: you are that. Not a copy, not a servant of it, but that itself, which is why it shocks the one who hears it.
Sufism · Bayazid Bistami
He said that looking for God for thirty years, he found it was himself who had been searching and himself who was sought.
Zen
Your original face is not something you earn or borrow. The resistance you feel to being told so is the last of the old self holding on.
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