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Jesusanswered them, "I showed you manygoodworks from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?"
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The Jewsanswered Him, "For a goodwork we do not stone You, but for 12blasphemy; and because You, being a man, 13makeYourself out to be God."
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Jesusanswered them, "Has it not beenwritten in 14your 15Law, '16I SAID, YOU ARE GODS '?
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"If he called them gods, to whom the word of Godcame (and the Scripturecannot* be broken ),
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do you say of Him, whom the Father17sanctified and 18sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, '19I am the Son of God '?
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"20If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
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but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe21the works, so that you may know and understand that 22the Father is in Me, and I in the Father."
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Therefore23they were seekingagain to seize Him, and 24He eluded their grasp.
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And He wentaway25againbeyond the Jordan to the placewhereJohn was firstbaptizing, and He was stayingthere.
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Manycame to Him and were saying, "WhileJohnperformedno26sign, yet27everythingJohnsaidaboutthisman was true."