Jeremiah 29:27

29:27 You should have reprimanded Jeremiah from Anathoth who is pretending to be a prophet among you! ¹ 

Deuteronomy 13:1-5

13:1 Suppose a prophet or one who foretells by dreams ²  should appear among you and show you a sign or wonder, ³  13:2 and the sign or wonder should come to pass concerning what he said to you, namely, “Let us follow other gods” – gods whom you have not previously known – “and let us serve them.” 13:3 You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer, ⁴  for the Lord your God will be testing you to see if you love him ⁵  with all your mind and being. ⁶  13:4 You must follow the Lord your God and revere only him; and you must observe his commandments, obey him, serve him, and remain loyal to him. 13:5 As for that prophet or dreamer, ⁷  he must be executed because he encouraged rebellion against the Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, redeeming you from that place of slavery, and because he has tried to entice you from the way the Lord your God has commanded you to go. In this way you must purge out evil from within. ⁸ 

Zechariah 13:3-6

13:3 Then, if anyone prophesies in spite of this, his father and mother to whom he was born will say to him, ‘You cannot live, for you lie in the name of the Lord.’ Then his father and mother to whom he was born will run him through with a sword when he prophesies. ⁹ 

13:4 “Therefore, on that day each prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies and will no longer wear the hairy garment ¹⁰  of a prophet to deceive the people. ¹¹  13:5 Instead he will say, ‘I am no prophet – indeed, I am a farmer, for a man has made me his indentured servant since my youth.’ ¹²  13:6 Then someone will ask him, ‘What are these wounds on your chest?’ ¹³  and he will answer, ‘Some that I received in the house of my friends.’

Matthew 21:23

The Authority of Jesus

21:23 Now after Jesus ¹⁴  entered the temple courts, ¹⁵  the chief priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching and said, “By what authority ¹⁶  are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”

John 8:53

8:53 You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? ¹⁷  And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?”

John 10:33

10:33 The Jewish leaders ¹⁸  replied, ¹⁹  “We are not going to stone you for a good deed ²⁰  but for blasphemy, ²¹  because ²²  you, a man, are claiming to be God.” ²³ 

[29:27]  ¹ tn Heb “So why have you not reprimanded Jeremiah…?” The rhetorical question functions as an emphatic assertion made explicit in the translation.

[13:1]  ² tn Heb “or a dreamer of dreams” (so KJV, ASV, NASB). The difference between a prophet (נָבִיא, navi’) and one who foretells by dreams (חֹלֵם אוֹ, ’o kholem) was not so much one of office – for both received revelation by dreams (cf. Num 12:6) – as it was of function or emphasis. The prophet was more a proclaimer and interpreter of revelation whereas the one who foretold by dreams was a receiver of revelation. In later times the role of the one who foretold by dreams was abused and thus denigrated as compared to that of the prophet (cf. Jer 23:28).

[13:1]  ³ tn The expression אוֹת אוֹ מוֹפֵת (’ot ’o mofet) became a formulaic way of speaking of ways of authenticating prophetic messages or other works of God (cf. Deut 28:46; Isa 20:3). The NT equivalent is the Greek term σημεῖον (shmeion), a sign performed (used frequently in the Gospel of John, cf. 2:11, 18; 20:30-31). They could, however, be counterfeited or (as here) permitted to false prophets by the Lord as a means of testing his people.

[13:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “or dreamer of dreams.” See note on this expression in v. 1.

[13:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[13:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “all your heart and soul” (so NRSV, CEV, NLT); or “heart and being” (NCV “your whole being”). See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

[13:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “or dreamer of dreams.” See note on this expression in v. 1.

[13:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “your midst” (so NAB, NRSV). The severity of the judgment here (i.e., capital punishment) is because of the severity of the sin, namely, high treason against the Great King. Idolatry is a violation of the first two commandments (Deut 5:6-10) as well as the spirit and intent of the Shema (Deut 6:4-5).

[13:3]  ⁹ sn Death (in this case being run…through with a sword) was the penalty required in the OT for prophesying falsely (Deut 13:6-11; 18:20-22).

[13:4]  ¹⁰ tn The “hairy garment of a prophet” (אַדֶּרֶת שֵׁעָר, ’adderet she’ar) was the rough clothing of Elijah (1 Kgs 19:13), Elisha (1 Kgs 19:19; 2 Kgs 2:14), and even John the Baptist (Matt 3:4). Yet, אַדֶּרֶת alone suggests something of beauty and honor (Josh 7:21). The prophet’s attire may have been simple the image it conveyed was one of great dignity.

[13:4]  ¹¹ tn The words “the people” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation from context (cf. NCV, TEV, NLT).

[13:5]  ¹² tn Or perhaps “for the land has been my possession since my youth” (so NRSV; similar NAB).

[13:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “wounds between your hands.” Cf. NIV “wounds on your body”; KJV makes this more specific: “wounds in thine hands.”

[21:23]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “he.”

[21:23]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “the temple.”

[21:23]  ¹⁶ tn On this phrase, see BDAG 844 s.v. ποῖος 2.a.γ.1

[8:53]  ¹⁷ tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here the tag is “are you?”).

[10:33]  ¹⁸ tn Or “the Jewish authorities”; Grk “the Jews.” Here again the phrase refers to the Jewish leaders. See the notes on the phrase “Jewish people” in v. 19 and “Jewish leaders” in vv. 24, 31.

[10:33]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “answered him.”

[10:33]  ²⁰ tn Or “good work.”

[10:33]  ²¹ sn This is the first time the official charge of blasphemy is voiced openly in the Fourth Gospel (although it was implicit in John 8:59).

[10:33]  ²² tn Grk “and because.”

[10:33]  ²³ tn Grk “you, a man, make yourself to be God.”