Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord must be put to death; the whole community is to stone him. If he blasphemes the Name, he is to be put to death, whether the resident foreigner or the native.
This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him: Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
But the prophet who presumes to speak a message in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods #– #that prophet must die.”