Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Is it not written? (ouk estin gegrammenon). Periphrastic perfect passive indicative of grafw (as in John 2:17) in place of the usual gegraptai. "Does it not stand written?"
In your law (en tw nomw umwn). From Psalms 82:6. The term nomov (law) applying here to the entire O.T. as in John 12:34; John 15:25; Romans 3:19; 1 Corinthians 14:21. Aleph D Syr-sin. omit umwn, but needlessly. We have it already so from Jesus in John 8:17. They posed as the special custodians of the O.T.
I said (oti egw eipa). Recitative oti before a direct quotation like our quotation marks. Eipa is a late second aorist form of indicative with -a instead of -on.
Ye are gods (qeoi este). Another direct quotation after eipa but without oti. The judges of Israel abused their office and God is represented in Psalms 82:6 as calling them "gods" (qeoi, elohim) because they were God's representatives. See the same use of elohim in Exodus 21:6; Exodus 22:9, Exodus 22:28. Jesus meets the rabbis on their own ground in a thoroughly Jewish way.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
John 8:17
John 10:36
John 12:34
John 15:25
Hebrews 2:7
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