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Jesus was charged with blasphemy for claiming to be God. ref Leviticus 24:16

" And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death"

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