I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.
⛓ Read Psalm 82 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
Jesus cites verbatim 'I said, you are gods' (v.34) from the law to defend calling himself Son of God. This is the only formal OT citation in the chapter, introduced with 'Isn't it written in your law,' and the argument turns on the precise wording. Highest volume and clarity.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'I said, you are gods, sons of the Most High' is the scriptural datum behind the deifying participation language of v.4.
Low confidence