John 10:39
John 10:3939At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp.
The renewed attempt to seize Jesus is read as ordinary opposition — evidence that Jesus had enemies, not evidence about what they thought he was claiming. The Watchtower frames Jesus's lesser-to-greater argument from Psalm 82 as a deflation of his own status (he is only "a god" like the judges) rather than as the qal wahomer escalation it actually is.
Jesus has just argued from Psalm 82 — a rabbinic lesser-to-greater argument: if Scripture called those who merely received God's word "gods" (and they were condemned and sentenced to die like men), how much more is it appropriate for the One the Father sanctified and sent? The crowd's response in — another seizure attempt — shows they understood the argument exactly the way Jesus made it: as a claim to be more than the Psalm 82 figures, not less. Pair with ("the Father is in me, and I am in the Father") and (the Jews understood Jesus' Father-claim as a claim to equality with God). Three times the hostile witnesses reach for force, and three times Jesus declines to walk back the claim.