John 10:25-40

²⁵“I have told you so,” replied Jesus, “and you do not believe me. The work that I am doing in my Father's name bears testimony to me.

²⁶But you do not believe me, because you are not of my flock.

²⁷My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me;

²⁸and I give them eternal life, and they will not be lost; nor will anyone snatch them out of my hands.

²⁹What my Father has entrusted to me is more than all else; and no one can snatch anything out of the Father's hands.

³⁰The Father and I are one.”

³¹Some of the people again brought stones to throw at him;

³²and seeing this, Jesus said, “I have done before your eyes many good actions, inspired by the Father; for which of them would you stone me?”

³³“It is not for any good action that we would stone you,” they answered, “but for blasphemy; and because you, who are only a man, make yourself out to be God.”

³⁴“Are there not,” replied Jesus, “these words in your Law — ‘I said, You are gods’?

³⁵If those to whom God's word were addressed were said to be ‘gods’ — and scripture cannot be set aside —

³⁶do you say of one whom the Father has consecrated and sent as his messenger to the world ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said ‘I am God's Son’?

³⁷If I am not doing the work that my Father is doing, do not believe me;

³⁸if I am doing it, even though you do not believe me, believe what that work shows; so that you may understand, and understand more and more clearly, that the Father is in union with me, and I with the Father.”

³⁹The authorities again sought to arrest him; but he escaped their hands.

⁴⁰Then Jesus again crossed the Jordan to the place where John used to baptize at first, and stayed there some time, during which many people came to see him.