John 10:22-11:16

Evangelical Heritage Version

“I and the Father Are One”

²² Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, ²³ and Jesus was walking in the temple area in Solomon’s Colonnade.

²⁴ So the Jews gathered around Jesus, asking, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

²⁵ Jesus answered them, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I am doing in my Father’s name testify about me. ²⁶ But you do not believe, because you are not my sheep, as I said to you.^{[a] 27} My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. ³⁰ I and the Father are one.”

³¹ Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him. ³² Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?”

³³ “We are not going to stone you for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because although you are a man, you make yourself out to be God.”

³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said you are gods’?^{[b] 35} If he called those people ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken, ³⁶ what about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world? Do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? ³⁷ If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not believe me. ³⁸ But if I am doing them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works so that you will know and understand^[c] that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.”

³⁹ So they tried to arrest him again, but he eluded their grasp. ⁴⁰ He went back across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he stayed there.

⁴¹ Many came to him and were saying, “John never did a miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true.” ⁴² And many believed in him there.

Jesus Raises Lazarus

11 Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. ² This Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was the same Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair.

³ So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, saying, “Lord, the one you love is sick!”

⁴ When Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not going to result in death, but it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

⁵ Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ⁶ Yet when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed in the place where he was two more days.

⁷ Then afterwards he said to his disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”

⁸ The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, recently the Jews were trying to stone you. And you are going back there again?”

⁹ Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks around during the day, he does not stumble because he sees this world’s light. ¹⁰ But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles because there is no light on him.”

¹¹ He said this and then told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”

¹² Then the disciples said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”

¹³ Jesus had been speaking about his death, but they thought he was merely talking about ordinary sleep. ¹⁴ So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. ¹⁵ And I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

¹⁶ Then Thomas (called the Twin^[d]) said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go too, so that we may die with him.”