"Take that man out of the camp. Everyone who heard him curse shall put his hands on the man's head to testify that he is guilty, and then the whole community shall stone him to death.

Get a couple of scoundrels to accuse him to his face of cursing God and the king. Then take him out of the city and stone him to death."

The Father and I are one."

This saying made the Jewish authorities all the more determined to kill him; not only had he broken the Sabbath law, but he had said that God was his own Father and in this way had made himself equal with God.

'You are gods,' I said; 'all of you are children of the Most High.'

Everyone must obey state authorities, because no authority exists without God's permission, and the existing authorities have been put there by God.

He always had the nature of God, but he did not think that by force he should try to remain equal with God.