Andrew Perriman, “Brant Pitre: are the charges of blasphemy evidence that Jesus claimed to be divine?” (9.12.24), postost.net.
The supposedly blasphemous claim of Jesus is not that he is God but that he has been given authority by God—on the one hand, to pronounce the forgiveness of sins for some in Israel, and on the other, to judge and rule as messiah at the right hand of YHWH.
In other words, because he is the Son of Man persecuted by unrighteous Israel and killed by the Roman oppressor, he has legitimately received what Alexander the Great, Antiochus Epiphanes, Herod Agrippa, and Caligula could only aspire to illegitimately. It is not incidental that these blasphemers are all kings.
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