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And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: and it was winter.
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And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.
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The Jews therefore came round about him and said to him: How long dost thou hold our souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
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Jesus answered them: I speak to you, and you believe not: the works that I do in the name of my Father, they give testimony of me.
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But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.
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My sheep hear my voice. And I know them: and they follow me.
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And I give them life everlasting: and they shall not perish for ever. And no man shall pluck them out of my hand.
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That which my Father hath given me is greater than all: and no one can snatch them out of the hand of my Father.
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I and the Father are one.
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The Jews then took up stones to stone him.
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Jesus answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?
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The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy: and because that thou. being a, man, makest thyself God.
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Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I said, you are gods?
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If he called them gods to whom the word of God was spoken; and the scripture cannot be broken:
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Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world: Thou blasphemest; because I said: I am the Son of God?
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If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
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But if I do, though you will not believe me, believe the works: that you may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in the Father.
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They sought therefore to take him: and he escaped out of their hands.
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And he went again beyond the Jordan, into that place where John was baptizing first. And there he abode.
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And many resorted to him: and they said: John indeed did no sign.
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But all things whatsoever John said of this man were true. And many believed n him.