John 10:22-42

Jesus Asserts His Deity

22 At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem;

23 it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of ¹Solomon.

24 ²The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, "How long * will You keep us in suspense *? If You are the Christ, tell us ³plainly."

25 Jesus answered them, "⁴I told you, and you do not believe; ⁵the works that I do in My Father's name, these testify of Me.

26 "But you do not believe because ⁶you are not of My sheep.

27 "My sheep ⁷hear My voice, and ⁸I know them, and they follow Me;

28 and I give ⁹eternal life to them, and they will never * perish; and ¹⁰no one will snatch them out of My hand.

29 "My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

30 "¹¹I and the Father are one."

31 The Jews ¹²picked up stones again to stone Him.

32 Jesus answered them, "I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?"

33 The Jews answered Him, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for ¹³blasphemy; and because You, being a man, ¹⁴make Yourself out to be God."

34 Jesus answered them, "Has it not been written in ¹⁵your ¹⁶Law, '¹⁷I SAID, YOU ARE GODS '?

35 "If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot * be broken ),

36 do you say of Him, whom the Father ¹⁸sanctified and ¹⁹sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, '²⁰I am the Son of God '?

37 "²¹If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;

38 but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe ²²the works, so that you may know and understand that ²³the Father is in Me, and I in the Father."

39 Therefore ²⁴they were seeking again to seize Him, and ²⁵He eluded their grasp.

40 And He went away ²⁶again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He was staying there.

41 Many came to Him and were saying, "While John performed no ²⁷sign, yet ²⁸everything John said about this man was true."

42 ²⁹Many believed in Him there.

Cross References

• 1. Acts 3:11; Acts 5:12
• 2. John 1:19; John 10:31, 33
• 3. Luke 22:67; John 16:25
• 4. John 8:56, 58
• 5. John 5:36; John 10:38
• 6. John 8:47
• 7. John 10:4, 16
• 8. John 10:14
• 9. John 17:2; 1 John 2:25; 1 John 5:11
• 10. John 6:37, 39
• 11. John 17:21f
• 12. John 8:59
• 13. Leviticus 24:16
• 14. John 5:18
• 15. John 8:17
• 16. John 12:34; John 15:25; Romans 3:19; 1 Corinthians 14:21
• 17. Psalms 82:6
• 18. Jeremiah 1:5; John 6:69
• 19. John 3:17
• 20. John 5:17; John 10:30
• 21. John 10:25; John 15:24
• 22. John 10:25; John 14:11
• 23. John 14:10f, 20; John 17:21, 23
• 24. John 7:30
• 25. Luke 4:30; John 8:59
• 26. John 1:28
• 27. John 2:11
• 28. John 1:27, 30, 34; John 3:27-30
• 29. John 7:31

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "do You lift up our soul"
• [b]. I.e. the Messiah
• [c]. One early ms reads "What My Father has given Me is greater than all"
• [d]. Or "a unity;" or "one essence"
• [e]. Lit "know and continue knowing"