18No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it up again. I received this commandment from my Father.”
19The Jews were divided again, because of these words.
20Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is insane. Why do you listen to Him?”
21Others were saying, “These aren’t the sayings of a demon-possessed person. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
22At that time the Feast of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,
23and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.
24Then the Jews gathered around Him, and asked Him, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
25Jesus answered, “I told you, but you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name testify about me,
26but you don’t believe, because you aren’t of my sheep.
27My sheep listen to my voice. I know them, and they follow me.
28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one is able to snatch them out of my hand.
29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
30I and my Father are one.”
31Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
32Jesus answered, “I showed you many good works from the Father. For which of them are you stoning me?”
33The Jews answered Him, “We aren’t stoning you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because You, being a man, claim to be God.”
34Jesus answered, “Isn’t it written in your Law, ‘I said, “You are gods”’?
35If he, who God’s word came to, called them gods, (and the Scripture can’t be broken),
36do you say of Him who the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?
37If I don’t do my Father’s works, then don’t believe me.
38But if I do them, even if you don’t believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.”
39Therefore they were trying again to seize Him, and He escaped from their grasp.
40Jesus went away again across the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He was staying there.
John 10
John 10:18-40