John 10:22–42

Jesus Is Rejected

²²The time came for the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, ²³and Jesus was walking in the Temple in Solomon’s Porch. ²⁴Some people gathered around him and said, “How long will you make us wonder about you? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

²⁵Jesus answered, “I told you already, but you did not believe. The miracles I do in my Father’s name show who I am. ²⁶But you don’t believe, because you are not my sheep. ²⁷My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸I give them eternal life, and they will never die, and no one can steal them out of my hand. ²⁹My Father gave my sheep to me. He is greater than all, and no person can steal my sheep out of my Father’s hand. ³⁰The Father and I are one.”

³¹Again some of the people picked up stones to kill Jesus. ³²But he said to them, “I have done many good works from the Father. Which of these good works are you killing me for?”

³³They answered, “We are not killing you because of any good work you did, but because you speak against God. You are only a human, but you say you are the same as God!”

³⁴Jesus answered, “It is written in your law that God said, ‘I said, you are gods.’ ^{n 35}This Scripture called those people gods who received God’s message, and Scripture is always true. ³⁶So why do you say that I speak against God because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? I am the one God chose and sent into the world. ³⁷If I don’t do what my Father does, then don’t believe me. ³⁸But if I do what my Father does, even though you don’t believe in me, believe what I do. Then you will know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”

³⁹They tried to take Jesus again, but he escaped from them.

⁴⁰Then he went back across the Jordan River to the place where John had first baptized. Jesus stayed there, ⁴¹and many people came to him and said, “John never did a miracle, but everything John said about this man is true.” ⁴²And in that place many believed in Jesus.