John 10:35
John 10:3535If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—
Jehovah's Witnesses cite Jesus' statement "Scripture cannot be broken" as an affirmation of biblical authority and the inviolability of God's written Word. In context, they use it to support the argument that the word "gods" in is a legitimate, divinely sanctioned usage — proving that beings besides Jehovah can properly be called "gods" without it implying full deity. If Scripture itself uses the term broadly, then calling Jesus "a god" is scripturally warranted.
Jesus affirms the absolute authority and unbreakable nature of Scripture — "Scripture cannot be broken." This is significant for the canon question: Jesus treats the Old Testament as self-attesting, fixed, and trustworthy in his own day, without appeal to any institutional body. The canon was recognised through distributed convergence across the early church, not imposed by a single central decree. In the immediate context of , Jesus uses this unbreakable Scripture to build a lesser-to- greater argument about his own identity. If the inviolable Word applied "gods" to lesser beings who were condemned, how much more does it apply to the one the Father sanctified and sent? The phrase also undercuts any attempt to dismiss Jesus' argument as merely rhetorical — he grounds his deity claim in the permanent, unalterable authority of the written Word.