I said, you are gods?
Psalm 82
God has taken his place in the divine council;
in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:
2 “How long will you judge unjustly
and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
3 Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;
maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
4 Rescue the weak and the needy;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”
5 They have neither knowledge nor understanding,
they walk about in darkness;
all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
6 I said, “You are gods,
sons of the Most High, all of you;
7 nevertheless, like men you shall die,
and fall like any prince.”[a]
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth;
for you shall inherit all the nations!
Jews and Jesus dispute in Jn 10:31-36
31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” 33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” 34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken— 36 do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
When the Jews told Jesus you are making yourself God? he respond to them by quote from Psalm 82 v6 “I said, you are gods’?
or in other words Jesus response, if he (God) called them gods but you didn’t say he was blaspheming but you say I am blaspheming even though I am sent from the Father into the world?
The entire Psalm 82 it’s talking about how Gods (Elohim) will judge and destroy the gods (Elohim) in the house of God (El) those who on earth (Israelite leaders) because of their false judgment and wicked ruling over the weak and needy.
