John 10:22–42

JESUS AT THE FESTIVAL OF DEDICATION

²²Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter. ²³Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon’s Colonnade.^{p 24}The Jews surrounded him and asked, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense?^A If you are the Messiah,^q tell us plainly.”^Br

²⁵“I did tell you and you don’t believe,” Jesus answered them. “The works^s that I do in my Father’s name testify about me. ²⁶But you don’t believe because you are not of my sheep.^{Ct 27}My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸I give them eternal life,^u and they will never perish.^v No one will snatch^w them out of my hand. ²⁹My Father,^x 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.”^y

RENEWED EFFORTS TO STONE JESUS

³¹Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone him.^z

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

³³“We aren’t stoning^ab 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,^D I said, you are gods?^{Eac 35}If he called those to whom the word^ad of God came ‘gods’—and the Scripture^ae 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?^{af 37}If I am not doing my Father’s works,^ag 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^F that the Father is in me and I in the Father.”^{ah 39}Then they were trying again to seize him,^ai but he escaped their grasp.^aj

MANY BEYOND THE JORDAN BELIEVE IN JESUS

⁴⁰So he departed again across the Jordan^ak to the place where John^al had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there. ⁴¹Many came to him^am and said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.” ⁴²And many believed in him there.