[10:22] At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter,
[10:23] and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon.
[10:24] So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
[10:25] Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness about me,
[10:26] but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep.
[10:27] My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
[10:28] I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
[10:29] My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
[10:30] I and the Father are one.”
[10:31] The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.
[10:32] Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?”
[10:33] The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
[10:34] Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?
[10:35] If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—
[10:36] do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
[10:37] If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me;
[10:38] but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
[10:39] Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.
[10:40] He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.
[10:41] And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”
[10:42] And many believed in him there.