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Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
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No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this mitzvah from my Father."
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Therefore a division arose again among the Yehudim because of these words.
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Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is mad! Why do you listen to him?"
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Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn't possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?"
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It was the Feast of Hanukkah at Yerushalayim.
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It was winter, and Yeshua was walking in the temple, in Shlomo's porch.
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The Yehudim therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly."
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Yeshua answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.
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But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
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My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
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I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
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My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.
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I and the Father are one."
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Therefore Yehudim took up stones again to stone him.
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Yeshua answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"
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The Yehudim answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."
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Yeshua answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'
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If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken),
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Do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'
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If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me.
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But if I do them, though you don't 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 again to seize him, and he went forth out of their hand.
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He went away again beyond the Yarden into the place where Yochanan was at the first immersing, and there he stayed.
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Many came to him. They said, "Yochanan indeed did no sign, but everything that Yochanan said about this man is true."
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Many believed in him there.