John 10:22-42

I and the Father Are One

22 At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter,

23 and Jesus was walking in the temple, ¹in the colonnade of Solomon.

24 So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are ²the Christ, ³tell us plainly."

25 Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. ⁴The works that I do ⁵in my Father's name bear witness about me,

26 but ⁶you do not believe because you are not part of my flock.

27 ⁷My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

28 ⁸I give them eternal life, and ⁹they will never perish, and ¹⁰no one will snatch them out of my hand.

29 My Father, ¹¹who has given them to me,^[a]12 is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of ¹³the Father's hand.

30 ¹⁴I and the Father are one."

31 ¹⁵The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.

32 Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?"

33 The Jews answered him, "It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but ¹⁶for blasphemy, because you, being a man, ¹⁷make yourself God."

34 Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in ¹⁸your Law, ¹⁹'I said, you are gods'?

35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came--and Scripture cannot be ²⁰broken--

36 o you say of him whom ²¹the Father consecrated and ²²sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because ²³I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

37 ²⁴If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me;

38 but if I do them, ²⁵even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that ²⁶the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

39 ²⁷Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.

40 He went away again across the Jordan to the place ²⁸where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.

41 And many came to him. And they said, "John did no sign, but ²⁹everything that John said about this man was true."

42 And ³⁰many believed in him there.

Cross References

• 1. Acts 3:11; Acts 5:12
• 2. John 1:41
• 3. Matthew 26:63; Luke 22:67
• 4. ver. 38; See John 5:36
• 5. See John 5:43
• 6. [John 8:47]
• 7. ver. 14, 16
• 8. [1 John 2:25; 1 John 5:11]
• 9. John 17:12; John 18:9
• 10. John 6:37
• 11. John 6:37; John 17:2
• 12. [John 14:28]
• 13. [Deuteronomy 32:39; Isaiah 49:2; Isaiah 51:16]
• 14. John 17:11, 22; [John 5:19; John 14:9]
• 15. John 8:59
• 16. See Leviticus 24:16; Matthew 9:3
• 17. John 5:18
• 18. [John 12:34; John 15:25; 1 Corinthians 14:21]
• 19. Cited from Psalms 82:6
• 20. [Matthew 5:17, 19]
• 21. [John 6:27]
• 22. See John 3:17
• 23. John 5:17, 18; [ver. 30]
• 24. John 15:24
• 25. ver. 25; [John 14:11]
• 26. John 14:10, 11, 20; John 17:21, 23; [John 8:29]
• 27. John 7:30, 44
• 28. John 1:28
• 29. John 1:7, 29-34; John 3:27-30; John 5:33
• 30. See John 7:31

Footnotes

• [a]. Some manuscripts What my Father has given to me