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The Dedication Festival came on in Jerusalem. It was winter,
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and Jesus was walking in the Temple in Solomon's Portico,
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when the Jews gathered round Him and kept asking Him, "How long do you mean to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us so plainly."
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"I have told you," answered Jesus, "and you do not believe. The deeds that I do in my Father's name--they give testimony about me.
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But you do not believe, because you are not my sheep.
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My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
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I give them the Life of the Ages, and they shall never, never perish, nor shall any one wrest them from my hand.
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What my Father has given me is more precious than all besides; and no one is able to wrest anything from my Father's hand.
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I and the Father are one."
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Again the Jews brought stones with which to stone Him.
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Jesus remonstrated with them. "Many good deeds," He said, "have I shown you as coming from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?"