And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, You blasphemed God and the king. And then take him out, and stone him, that he may die.
And he that blasphemes the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as for the stranger, so for him that is born in the land, when he blasphemes the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.
Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.