Jesus knew by telling people He is the Son of God that people would think He was saying He is on a par with God and even calling Himself a god. Yet His response was to point out that many can be rightly called a god because they were mighty (not almighty) and set apart as judges and that He is just as worrhy because He was with God from before time and was set apart by God to be sent as judge. Yet He did not call Himself ‘God’ in the sense that He calls the Father ‘God’. That is as close as it gets along with similar verses in the first chapter of John. Not enough to justify anyone saying He is God in the same sense the Father is God - that is a cult heresy. Mighty yes. Almighty no.
