tcent - John:10:22-42

tcent@John:10:22 @ Then came the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter,

tcent@John:10:23 @ and Jesus was in the temple, walking in Solomon's Porch.

tcent@John:10:24 @ So the Jews gathered round him and said to him, »How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.«

tcent@John:10:25 @ Jesus answered them, »I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me;

tcent@John:10:26 @ but you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.

tcent@John:10:27 @ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

tcent@John:10:28 @ I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one shall snatch them out of my hand.

tcent@John:10:29 @ My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.

tcent@John:10:30 @ I and the Father are one.«

tcent@John:10:31 @ The Jews took up stones again to stone him.

tcent@John:10:32 @ Jesus answered them, »I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?«

tcent@John:10:33 @ The Jews answered him, »For a good work we do not stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, being a man, make yourself God.«

tcent@John:10:34 @ Jesus answered them, »Is it not written in your law, I said, you are gods?

tcent@John:10:35 @ If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

tcent@John:10:36 @ do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, You are blaspheming, because I said, I am the Son of God?

tcent@John:10:37 @ If I do not do the works of my father, do not believe me;

tcent@John:10:38 @ 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 am in the Father.«

tcent@John:10:39 @ Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped from their hands.

tcent@John:10:40 @ He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.

tcent@John:10:41 @ And many came to him and they said, »John performed no sign, but all that John said about this man was true.«

tcent@John:10:42 @ And many believed in him there.