John 10:34-41

34Jesus replied, “It is written in your own Scriptures that God said to certain leaders of the people, ‘I say, you are gods!’

35And you know that the Scriptures cannot be altered. So if those people who received God’s message were called ‘gods,’

36why do you call it blasphemy when I say, ‘I am the Son of God’? After all, the Father set me apart and sent me into the world.

37Don’t believe me unless I carry out my Father’s work.

38But if I do his work, believe in the evidence of the miraculous works I have done, even if you don’t believe me. Then you will know and understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.”

39Once again they tried to arrest him, but he got away and left them.

40He went beyond the Jordan River near the place where John was first baptizing and stayed there awhile.

41And many followed him. “John didn’t perform miraculous signs,” they remarked to one another, “but everything he said about this man has come true.”