John 10:32–42

³²Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?” ³³The Jews answered, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, though only a human, are making yourself God.”^{* 34}Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law,^t ‘I said, you are gods’?^{* 35}If those to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’—and the scripture cannot be annulled—³⁶can you say that the one whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world is blaspheming because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?^{* 37}If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me.^{* 38}But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand^u that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”^{* 39}Then they tried to arrest him again, but he escaped from their hands.^*

⁴⁰He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there. ⁴¹Many came to him, and they were saying, “John performed no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”^{* 42}And many believed in him there.^*