John 10:36
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? 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?
Jesus is the one whom the Father sanctified and set apart and sent into the world. As such He is the Father's divine representative and the Mediator full of grace and truth. Having laid hold on human nature, He erected the cross between humanity and divinity and between heaven and earth as a wonderful center of attraction to draw people across the gulf of sin and separation to Himself as the Lifegiver.
The sanctifying was His inauguration to His appointed work at His baptism on the banks of the Jordan, when He entered upon His work with the seal of divinity upon Him. That dedication was attested by His prayer, the opened heavens, the descent of the Spirit in dove form in appearance like burnished gold, and the Father's voice in recognition of His offering. It involved no mingled human agency, for every human representative and instrumentality was set aside and dispensed with as unworthy beside His greatness. In Him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and He is the one whom God the Father sealed.
The baptism was only a faint representation of His exaltation before the universe, with the awe and reverence of angels and archangels and thrones and dominions and principalities and powers, the admiration and adoration of unfallen worlds, and great rejoicing in heaven when divine love gave the only begotten Son to bring the character of God before the world and to set up the tabernacle of heaven among men. The setting of His words was one of anger and hostility at His plain truths, in which His opponents treated His statement that He is the Son of God as blasphemy, sought grounds and pretexts to condemn Him, and repeatedly tried to stone and kill Him. His claim to be the Son of God was not blasphemy.
He did not correct the hearers' understanding that His words claimed divine status and equality with the Father. His works of mercy and His pure and holy teachings and life proved the charge of blasphemy and Sabbath-breaking false, and the multitudes who saw His works and heard His words knew they were not the deeds and words of a blasphemer. He pointed to His works as evidence of His divine mission and unity with the Father, urging those who would not believe His words to believe the works and recognize that the Father was in Him and He in the Father.
When stones were taken up against Him, angels protected Him and carried Him to safety, and at other attempts He quietly withdrew and passed out of their sight. Even the officers sent to seize Him were so influenced by His words that they could not lay hands on Him.