<p>10:36- see on Jn. 17:20.</p><p><i>Do you say of him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world: You blaspheme, because I said: I am the Son of God?</i>- As noted on :34 and :35, the Lord was not claiming to be God; the accusation was misplaced and a wilful misinterpretation. His claim was to be the Son of God. However, that claim is nowhere recorded. It was insofar as the word was made flesh that He proclaimed the Father in a way that only the begotten Son could do. His life was therefore effectively the statement that He was God's Son; but He never actually uses those words in any recorded speech in the Gospels.</p><p>We have here a brief and rare window into how the Lord perceived His life before age 30. The Lord Jesus says that He was &quot;consecrated&quot; as a priest or High Priest, and then sent into the world, at age 30. That's how He looked back and understood those 30 years of mundane village life- a process of consecration, of purifying, of preparation. He saw that none of the multitude of daily frustrations was without purpose- it was all part of His preparation. And perhaps we'll look back on these brief years of our humanity in the same way. But the point is that the Lord's mundane life before 30 was actually an active preparation of Him for service.</p>