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We continue to follow Jesus in His growing tense confrontations with the Jews. They challenged His claims. They continue to be irrational in not seeing any connection between the evidence of His power to do what only God can do, and His open declaration that He is divine. Let us not separate Jesus' being divine and His being fully human. This is the miracle of the hypostatic union. Hypostatic comes from the Greek hypostasis, that means person. In the one Person of Jesus Christ, there are united two natures, namely, human and divine. The Jews were insisting He was only human, claiming to be divine. Hence, they accused Him of blasphemy. We make that connection when we obey Jesus in His Will and Commandments. He is God for me. Or is it that we cut Him down in size, by disobeying Him or by delaying in obeying Him, etc?