John 10:22–42

Jesus Asserts His Deity

²²At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem;

²³it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of ^aSolomon.

^24aThe Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, “How long ¹will You keep us in suspense? If You are ²the Christ, tell us ^bplainly.”

²⁵Jesus answered them, “^aI told you, and you do not believe; ^bthe works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me.

²⁶“But you do not believe because ^ayou are not of My sheep.

²⁷“My sheep ^ahear My voice, and ^bI know them, and they follow Me;

²⁸and I give ^aeternal life to them, and they will never perish; and ^bno one will snatch them out of My hand.

²⁹“¹My 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.

³⁰“^aI and the Father are ¹one.”

³¹The Jews ^apicked up stones again to stone Him.

³²Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?”

³³The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for ^ablasphemy; and because You, being a man, ^bmake Yourself out to be God.”

³⁴Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in ^ayour ^bLaw, ‘^cI said, you are gods’?

³⁵“If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

³⁶do you say of Him, whom the Father ^asanctified and ^bsent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘^cI am the Son of God’?

³⁷“^aIf I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;

³⁸but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe ^athe works, so that you may ¹know and understand that ^bthe Father is in Me, and I in the Father.”

³⁹Therefore ^athey were seeking again to seize Him, and ^bHe eluded their grasp.

⁴⁰And He went away ^aagain beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He was staying there.

⁴¹Many came to Him and were saying, “While John performed no ^asign, yet ^beverything John said about this man was true.”

^42aMany believed in Him there.