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but
1you do not believe because you are not among my sheep.
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2My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
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3I give them eternal life, and
4they will never perish, and
5no one will snatch them out of my hand.
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My Father,
6who has given them to me,
7is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of
8the Father’s hand.
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9I and the Father are one. ”
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10The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.
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Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me? ”
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The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but
11for blasphemy, because you, being a man,
12make yourself God. ”
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Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in
13your Law,
14‘I said, you are gods’?
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If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be
15broken—
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do you say of him whom
16the Father consecrated and
17sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming, ’ because
18I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?