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They replied, âWeâre stoning you not for any good work, but for blasphemy! You, a mere man, claim to be God.â
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Jesus replied, âIt is written in your own Scriptures that God said to certain leaders of the people, âI say, you are gods!â
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And you know that the Scriptures cannot be altered. So if those people who received Godâs message were called âgods,â
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why do you call it blasphemy when I say, âI am the Son of Godâ? After all, the Father set me apart and sent me into the world.
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Donât believe me unless I carry out my Fatherâs work.
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But if I do his work, believe in the evidence of the miraculous works I have done, even if you donât believe me. Then you will know and understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.â
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Once again they tried to arrest him, but he got away and left them.
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He went beyond the Jordan River near the place where John was first baptizing and stayed there awhile.
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And many followed him. âJohn didnât perform miraculous signs,â they remarked to one another, âbut everything he said about this man has come true.â
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And many who were there believed in Jesus.