John 10:22-42

22At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem.

23It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple [area] in Solomon’s portico.

24So the Jews surrounded Him and began saying to Him, “How long are You going to keep us in suspense? If You are [really] the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), tell us so plainly and openly.”

25Jesus answered them, “I have told you so, yet you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name testify concerning Me [they are My credentials and the evidence declaring who I am].

26But you do not believe Me [so you do not trust and follow Me] because you are not My sheep.

27The sheep that are My own hear My voice and listen to Me; I know them, and they follow Me.

28And I give them eternal life, and they will never, ever [by any means] perish; and no one will ever snatch them out of My hand.

29My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater and mightier than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

30I and the Father are One [in essence and nature].”

31Again the Jews picked up stones to stone Him.

32Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works [and many acts of mercy] from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?”

33The Jews answered Him, “We are not going to stone You for a good work, but for blasphemy, because You, a mere man, make Yourself out to be God.”

34Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods [human judges representing God, not divine beings]’?

35If He called them gods, men to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be undone or annulled or broken),

36[if that is true] then do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and set apart for Himself and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

37If I do not do the works of My Father [that is, the miracles that only God could perform], then do not believe Me.

38But if I am doing them, even if you do not believe Me or have faith in Me, [at least] believe the works [that I do—admit that they are the works of God], so that you may know and keep on knowing [clearly—without any doubt] that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father [that is, I am One with Him].”

39So they tried again to seize Him, but He eluded their grasp.

40He went back again across the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He was staying there.

41Many came to Him, and they were saying, “John did not perform a single sign (attesting miracle), but everything John said about this Man was true and accurate.”

42And many there believed and confidently trusted in Him [accepting Him as Savior, and following His teaching].