Bible Com­men­tary on John 10:36

Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi

In John 10:36, we read the fol­low­ing words of Jesus :

“Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanc­ti­fied, and sent into the world, Thou blas­phemest ; because I said, I am the Son of God?”

The translit­er­a­tion of this verse in Greek is as follows

hon ho Pateer hee­giasen kai apesteilen eis ton kos­mon humeis leg­ete hoti Blas­feemeis, hoti eipon, Huios tou Theou eimi ?

The word hee­giasen is a deriv­a­tive of hagia­zo, which the trans­la­tors of the KJV Bible trans­lat­ed as ​“sanc­ti­fied”. We read the def­i­n­i­tion of hagia­zo as follows :

Strong’s Num­ber : 37
Translit­er­at­ed : hagiazo
Pho­net­ic : hag-ee-ad’-zo

Text : from 40 ; to make holy, i.e. (cer­e­mo­ni­al­ly) puri­fy or con­se­crate ; (men­tal­ly) to ven­er­ate : –hal­low, be holy, sanctify. 

The word ​“sanc­ti­fied” comes from the Latin word sanc­tus mean­ing, ​“holy”. Hence, the word ​“sanc­ti­fied” means, ​“made holy”. Since God is Eter­nal­ly Holy, and we see that Jesus is claim­ing that he was made Holy by God, how could one claim Jesus to be GOD, from the begin­ning ? If Jesus was indeed ​“made holy”, it would be unde­ni­able that he is sub­ject to ​“The Father” (God Almighty) and would­n’t that mean a big blow to the Divin­i­ty of Jesus ?