John 10:22-42

22Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter.

23Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon’s Colonnade.

24The Jews surrounded him and asked, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

25“I did tell you and you don’t believe,” Jesus answered them. “The works that I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

26But you don’t believe because you are not of my sheep.

27My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.

28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.

29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

30I and the Father are one.”

31Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone him.

32Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these works are you stoning me?”

33“We aren’t stoning you for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because you — being a man — make yourself God.”

34Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, I said, you are gods?

35If he called those to whom the word of God came ‘gods’ — and the Scripture cannot be broken —

36do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the one the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?

37If I am not doing my Father’s works, don’t believe me.

38But if I am doing them and you don’t believe me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in me and I in the Father.”

39Then they were trying again to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.

40So he departed again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there.

41Many came to him and said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.”

42And many believed in him there.