I and the Father Are One
22 At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter,
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and Jesus was walking in the temple,
1in the colonnade of Solomon.
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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. ”
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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,
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but
6you do not believe because you are not among my sheep.
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7My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
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8I give them eternal life, and
9they will never perish, and
10no one will snatch them out of my hand.
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My Father,
11who has given them to me,
12is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of
13the Father’s hand.
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14I and the Father are one. ”
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15The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.
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Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me? ”
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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. ”
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Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in
18your Law,
19‘I said, you are gods’?
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If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be
20broken—
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do 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’?
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24If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me;
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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. ”
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27Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.
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He went away again across the Jordan to the place
28where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.
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And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but
29everything that John said about this man was true. ”
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And
30many believed in him there.