John 10 Footnotes

10:16 When Jesus addressed Jews and spoke about “other sheep,” he would have had Gentiles in mind. His church would unite Jew and Gentile (Gl 3:28). There is no reason to believe the Mormon claim that he was speaking here of Native Americans and an appearance in the New World.

10:34-36 This is not an acknowledgement of polytheism or a claim that human beings are gods; it is an argument “from the lesser to the greater.” Human judges in Israel were called “gods” because of their exalted (though abused) roles in Ps 82:6, so it could not automatically have been blasphemy for Jesus to refer to himself as God’s Son.