John 10:24–39

24 The Jews therefore came round about him and said to him: How long dost thou hold our souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.

25 Jesus answered them: I speak to you, and you believe not: the works that I do in the name of my Father, they give testimony of me.

26 But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.

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

28 And I give them life everlasting: and they shall not perish for ever. And no man shall pluck them out of my hand.

29 That which my Father hath given me is greater than all: and no one can snatch them out of the hand of my Father.

30 I and the Father are one.

31 The Jews then took up stones to stone him.

32 Jesus answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?

33 The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy: and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself 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 was spoken; and the scripture cannot be broken:

36 Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world: Thou blasphemest; because I said: I am the Son of God?

37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

38 But if I do, though you will not believe me, believe the works: that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.

39 They sought therefore to take him: and he escaped out of their hands.