²³ Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown^(A) what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’”^(B)

²⁴ “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.^{(C) 25} I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.^{(D) 26} Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.^{(E) 27} And there were many in Israel with leprosy^[a] in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”^(F)

²⁸ All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. ²⁹ They got up, drove him out of the town,^(G) and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. ³⁰ But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.^(H)

⁵⁷ “You are not yet fifty years old,” they said to him, “and you have seen Abraham!”

⁵⁸ “Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born,^(A) I am!”^{(B) 59} At this, they picked up stones to stone him,^(C) but Jesus hid himself,^(D) slipping away from the temple grounds.

²⁴ The Jews^(A) who were there gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”^(B)

²⁵ Jesus answered, “I did tell you,^(C) but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me,^{(D) 26} but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.^{(E) 27} My sheep listen to my voice; I know them,^(F) and they follow me.^{(G) 28} I give them eternal life,^(H) and they shall never perish;^(I) no one will snatch them out of my hand.^{(J) 29} My Father, who has given them to me,^(K) is greater than all^[a];^(L) no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. ³⁰ I and the Father are one.”^(M)

³¹ Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him,^{(N) 32} but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”

³³ “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”^(O)

³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law,^(P) ‘I have said you are “gods”’^[b]?^{(Q) 35} If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God^(R) came—and Scripture cannot be set aside^(S)— ³⁶ what about the one whom the Father set apart^(T) as his very own^(U) and sent into the world?^(V) Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?^{(W) 37} Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father.^{(X) 38} But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”^{(Y) 39} Again they tried to seize him,^(Z) but he escaped their grasp.^(AA)