| 22. | Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter. |
| 23. | And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. |
| 24. | Then the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him, “How long do You keep us in doubt? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.” |
| 25. | Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me. |
| 26. | But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. |
| 27. | My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. |
| 28. | And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. |
| 29. | My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. |
| 30. | I and My Father are one.” |
| 31. | Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. |
| 32. | Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?” |
| 33. | The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.” |
| 34. | Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods” ’? |
| 35. | If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), |
| 36. | do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? |
| 37. | If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; |
| 38. | but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.” |
| 39. | Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand. |