John:10:22-42
nsb@John:10:22 @ It was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem.
nsb@John:10:23 @ It was wintertime. Jesus was walking in the temple on Solomons porch.
nsb@John:10:24 @ The Jews came to him and asked: »How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.«
nsb@John:10:25 @ Jesus replied: »I told you and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Fathers name bear witness of me.
nsb@John:10:26 @ »You do not believe because you are not my sheep!
nsb@John:10:27 @ »My sheep hear my voice. I know them and they follow me.
nsb@John:10:28 @ »I give them eternal life. They will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.
nsb@John:10:29 @ »My Father has given them to me. He is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them out of the Fathers hand.
nsb@John:10:30 @ »The Father and I are one.«
nsb@John:10:31 @ The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.
nsb@John:10:32 @ Jesus replied to them: »I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of those works do you stone me?«
nsb@John:10:33 @ The Jews answered him: »We do not stone you for good work but for blasphemy. You are a man and you make yourself like God.« (John strkjv@1:1)
nsb@John:10:34 @ Jesus said: »Is it not written in your law, I said, you are god-like ones?
nsb@John:10:35 @ »So if he called them god-like ones, those to whom the word of God came, and the Scriptures may not be annulled,
nsb@John:10:36 @ »do you say to the one whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, you blaspheme? And this because I said, I am the Son of God. (Psalm strkjv@82:1, 6) (John strkjv@1:34; John strkjv@5:18) (Luke strkjv@1:35)
nsb@John:10:37 @ »If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not believe me.
nsb@John:10:38 @ »But if I do them and you do not believe me, believe the works! That way you may know and understand that the Father is with me, and I am with the Father.«
nsb@John:10:39 @ They tried again to capture him but he escaped from them.
nsb@John:10:40 @ He traveled beyond the Jordan into the place where John first baptized and stayed there.
nsb@John:10:41 @ Many came to him and they said: »John indeed did not perform a single miracle. Yet everything John said about this man was true.«
nsb@John:10:42 @ Many believed in him there.
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