John 10:35-36

John 10:35-36

[35] If  he called  them  gods,  unto  whom  the word  of God  came,  and  the scripture  cannot  be broken;  [36] Say  of him, whom  the Father  hath sanctified,  and  sent  into  the world,  Thou blasphemest;  because  I said,  I am  the Son  of God? 

What does John 10:35-36 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

The clause "the Scripture cannot be broken" means that man cannot annul it, set it aside, or prove it false.
"It means that Scripture cannot be emptied of its force by being shown to be erroneous." [1]
Jesus" statement affirms the unity, authority, and inerrancy of Scripture. Jesus held a very high view of Scripture. His point was that it was inconsistent for the Jews to claim the Old Testament as their authority ( John 10:34) and then to disregard something that it said because they did not agree with it. It was inconsistent for them, specifically, to stone Jesus for claiming to be God and the Son of God when the Old Testament spoke of humans as gods and as God"s sons.
"In the singular he graphe usually means a single passage of Scripture, and the verb translated broken (luo) is used in John 10:18 of disregarding the letter of the law. The meaning here is "this passage of Scripture cannot be set aside as irrelevant to the matter under discussion"." [2]
Jesus did not use this argument to claim that He was God. He used it to stall His critics. He wanted them to see that the divine terms that He was using to describe Himself were terms that the Old Testament itself also used of human beings. They could not logically accuse Him of blasphemy because the Father had set Him aside and sent Him into the world with a special mission. He was a legitimate Son of God for this reason.
As the Jews had sanctified their temple after its desecration by Antiochus Epiphanies, so God had sanctified His Son. The Jews celebrated the sanctification of their physical temple with the feast of Dedication, but they were unwilling to accept the spiritual temple that replaced it, namely, Jesus.