John 10:22-42

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²² And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: and it was winter.

²³ And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch.

²⁴ The Jews therefore came round about him, and said to him: How long dost thou hold our souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.

²⁵ Jesus answered them: I speak to you, and you believe not: the works that I do in the name of my Father, they give testimony of me.

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

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice: and I know them, and they follow me.

²⁸ And I give them life everlasting; and they shall not perish for ever, and no man shall pluck them out of my hand.

²⁹ That which my Father hath given me, is greater than all: and no one can snatch them out of the hand of my Father.

³⁰ I and the Father are one.

³¹ The Jews then took up stones to stone him.

³² Jesus answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my Father; for which of these works do you stone me?

³³ The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, maketh thyself God.

³⁴ Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I said you are gods?

³⁵ If he called them gods, to whom the word of God was spoken, and the scripture cannot be broken;

³⁶ Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world: Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God?

³⁷ If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

³⁸ But if I do, though you will not believe me, believe the works: that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.

³⁹ They sought therefore to take him; and he escaped out of their hands.

⁴⁰ And he went again beyond the Jordan, into that place where John was baptizing first; and there he abode.

⁴¹ And many resorted to him, and they said: John indeed did no sign.

⁴² But all things whatsoever John said of this man, were true. And many believed in him.