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I give them eternal life, and they shall never die. No one can snatch them away from me.
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What my Father has given me is greater than everything, and no one can snatch them away from the Father's care.
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The Father and I are one."
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Then the people again picked up stones to throw at him.
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Jesus said to them, "I have done many good deeds in your presence which the Father gave me to do; for which one of these do you want to stone me?"
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They answered, "We do not want to stone you because of any good deeds, but because of your blasphemy! You are only a man, but you are trying to make yourself God!"
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Jesus answered, "It is written in your own Law that God said, "You are gods.'
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We know that what the scripture says is true forever; and God called those people gods, the people to whom his message was given.
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As for me, the Father chose me and sent me into the world. How, then, can you say that I blaspheme because I said that I am the Son of God?
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Do not believe me, then, if I am not doing the things my Father wants me to do.
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But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, you should at least believe my deeds, in order that you may know once and for all that the Father is in me and that I am in the Father."