Jesus at the Festival of Dedication
22 Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter.
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Jesus was walking in the temple complex in Solomon's Colonnade.
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Then the Jews surrounded Him and asked, "How long are You going to keep us in suspense? If You are the Messiah, tell us plainly."
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"I did tell you and you don't believe," Jesus answered them. "The works that I do in My Father's name testify about Me.
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But you don't believe because you are not My sheep.
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My sheep hear My voice, I know them, and they follow Me.
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I give them eternal life, and they will never perish-ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand.
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My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.
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The Father and I are one."
Renewed Efforts to Stone Jesus
31 Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone Him.
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Jesus replied, "I have shown you many good works from the Father. Which of these works are you stoning Me for?"
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"We aren't stoning You for a good work," the Jews answered, "but for blasphemy, because You-being a man-make Yourself God."
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Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, I said, you are gods ?
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If He called those whom the word of God came to 'gods'-and the Scripture cannot be broken-
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do you say, 'You are blaspheming' to the One the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?
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If I am not doing My Father's works, don't believe Me.
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But if I am doing them and you don't believe Me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in Me and I in the Father."
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Then they were trying again to seize Him, yet He eluded their grasp.
Many beyond the Jordan Believe in Jesus
40 So He departed again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and He remained there.
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Many came to Him and said, "John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true."
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And many believed in Him there.