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The Judeans replied, "We are not stoning you for any good deed, but for blasphemy -- because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God [Hebrew: Elohim]."
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Yeshua answered them, "Isn't it written in your Torah, `I have said, "You people are Elohim' "?h
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If he called `elohim' the people to whom the word of Elohim was addressed (and the Tanakh cannot be broken),
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then are you telling the one whom the Father set apart as holy and sent into the world, `You are committing blasphemy,' just because I said, `I am a son of Elohim'?
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"If I am not doing deeds that reflect my Father's power, don't trust me.
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But if I am, then, even if you don't trust me, trust the deeds; so that you may understand once and for all that the Father is united with me, and I am united with the Father."
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One more time they tried to arrest him, but he slipped out of their hands.
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He went off again beyond the Yarden, where Yochanan had been immersing at first, and stayed there.
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Many people came to him and said, "Yochanan performed no miracles, but everything Yochanan said about this man was true."
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And many people there put their trust in him.