John 10:22–42

Further Conflict Over Jesus’ Claims

²²Then came the Festival of Dedication^b at Jerusalem. It was winter, ²³and Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomon’s Colonnade.^{m 24}The Jewsⁿ who were there gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”^o

²⁵Jesus answered, “I did tell you,^p but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me,^{q 26}but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.^{r 27}My sheep listen to my voice; I know them,^s and they follow me.^{t 28}I give them eternal life,^u and they shall never perish;^v no one will snatch them out of my hand.^{w 29}My Father, who has given them to me,^x is greater than all^c;^y no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. ³⁰I and the Father are one.”^z

³¹Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him,^{a 32}but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”

³³“We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”^b

³⁴Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law,^c ‘I have said you are “gods” ’^d?^{d 35}If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God^e came—and Scripture cannot be set aside^f—³⁶what about the one whom the Father set apart^g as his very own^h and sent into the world?ⁱ Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?^{j 37}Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father.^{k 38}But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”^{l 39}Again they tried to seize him,^m but he escaped their grasp.ⁿ

⁴⁰Then Jesus went back across the Jordan^o to the place where John had been baptizing in the early days. There he stayed, ⁴¹and many people came to him. They said, “Though John never performed a sign,^p all that John said about this man was true.”^{q 42}And in that place many believed in Jesus.^r