65 Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has uttered blasphemy. What further witnesses do we need? You have now heard his blasphemy.

7 “Why does this man speak like that? He is ^wblaspheming! ^xWho can forgive sins but God alone?”

64 You have heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?” And they all condemned him as ⁱdeserving death.

21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, “Who is this who speaks ^rblasphemies? ^sWho can forgive sins but God alone?”

Jesus Is Equal with God

18 This was why the Jews were ^pseeking all the more ^qto kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, ^rmaking himself ^sequal with God.

33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for ^vblasphemy, ^wbecause you, being a man, ^xmake yourself God.”