John 10:36 (DRB)

Passage

Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world: Thou blasphemest; because I said: I am the Son of God?

Nearby Context

John 10:34 Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I said, you are gods?

John 10:35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God was spoken; and the scripture cannot be broken:

John 10:36 Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world: Thou blasphemest; because I said: I am the Son of God?

John 10:37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

John 10:38 But if I do, though you will not believe me, believe the works: that you may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in the Father.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "world", "father", "hath", "sanctified", "sent", "thou", "blasphemest", and "said". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "world" and "father", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 35's "If he called them gods to whom..." into verse 37's "If I do not the works of...", so "world" and "father" belong inside that flow. In John context, the local focus is the identity of Jesus, new birth, eternal life, and belief and unbelief.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "world" and "father" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.