Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.
The role of judges and magistrates is like the role God has, to judge correctly and justly. This is true in our time, and it was true many centuries ago. It was so in the time of the composition of the psalms, and it was so in time of Jesus.
In psalm 82, for instance, God takes to takes to task the wicked rulers and judges. They had a divine title; they were called gods, and apparently acted high and mighty like gods almighty. They received the sentence given them by God, that they would die like human beings and not live forever like real gods or real sons of the Most High.
If Scripture calls even wicked people sons of God, how could anybody complain when the true Son of God called himself Son of God. If it were okay to refer to bad people as divine, it should be even more abundantly proper to call Jesus, whose works prove him to be God’s Son, Son of God.
The works Jesus did were witnesses to his true identity. So was John the Baptist. John did not describe the death of John the Baptist as the other gospel writers had. It may have been that John was still alive and preaching at this point. John did note here that Jesus went back to where John the Baptist had first baptized. This was across the Jordan, safe from the hands of his enemies.
The result of the confrontations with the authorities and the works and words of Jesus brought many to believe in him. Are we among those who believe in him?