John 10:36 (LSB)

Passage

do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

Nearby Context

John 10:34 Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?

John 10:35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

John 10:36 do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

John 10:37 If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;

John 10:38 but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and continue knowing that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.”

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "world", "father", "sanctified", "sent", "blaspheming", 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 do the works...", 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.