John 10:24–42

²⁴So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are ⁱthe Christ, ^jtell us plainly.” ²⁵Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. ^kThe works that I do ^lin my Father’s name bear witness about me, ²⁶but ^myou do not believe because you are not among my sheep. ²⁷ⁿMy sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ^28oI give them eternal life, and ^pthey will never perish, and ^qno one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹My Father, ^rwho has given them to me,^{1 s}is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of ^tthe Father’s hand. ^30uI and the Father are one.”

^31vThe Jews picked up stones again to stone him. ³²Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” ³³The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but ^wfor blasphemy, because you, being a man, ^xmake yourself God.” ³⁴Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in ^yyour Law, ^z‘I said, you are gods’? ³⁵If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be ^abroken— ³⁶do you say of him whom ^bthe Father consecrated and ^csent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because ^dI said, ‘I am the Son of God’? ^37eIf I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; ³⁸but if I do them, ^feven though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that ^gthe Father is in me and I am in the Father.” ^39hAgain they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.

⁴⁰He went away again across the Jordan to the place ⁱwhere John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained. ⁴¹And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but ^jeverything that John said about this man was true.” ⁴²And ^kmany believed in him there.