I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE

According to anti-Trinitarians, when Jesus said, “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30), it must mean a unity of purpose, not of divine nature or substance, between Father and Son. But the same discussion between Jesus and the Jews demonstrates the truth of the Trinitarian faith: After those words of Jesus, the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father, for which of those works do ye stone me? (John 10:31-32) Attention, the Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not, BUT FOR BLASPHEMY, AND BECAUSE THAT THOU, being a man, MAKEST THYSELF GOD. (John 10:33) It is evident that the Jews had understood the words of Jesus as a violation of the oneness of God, therefore a very serious blasphemy. These accused Jesus of making himself God. This shows that those words of Jesus are to be understood according to the divine unity between Father and Son, and not only according to a unity of purpose.