^30 (A)I and the Father are one.”

^31 (B)The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. ³² Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” ³³ The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but ^(C)for blasphemy, because you, being a man, ^(D)make yourself God.” ³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in ^(E)your Law, ^(F)‘I said, you are gods’? ³⁵ If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be ^(G)broken— ³⁶ do you say of him whom ^(H)the Father consecrated and ^(I)sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because ^(J)I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? ^37 (K)If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; ³⁸ but if I do them, ^(L)even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that ^(M)the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” ^39 (N)Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.

²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you: ^(A)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, ^(B)they will also persecute you. ^(C)If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

²³ Are they ^(A)servants of Christ? ^(B)I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, ^(C)far more imprisonments, ^(D)with countless beatings, and ^(E)often near death. ²⁴ Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the ^(F)forty lashes less one. ²⁵ Three times I was ^(G)beaten with rods. ^(H)Once I was stoned. Three times I ^(I)was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; ²⁶ on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, ^(J)danger from my own people, ^(K)danger from Gentiles, ^(L)danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers;

¹² For ^(A)we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against ^(B)the rulers, against the authorities, against ^(C)the cosmic powers over ^(D)this present darkness, against ^(E)the spiritual forces of evil ^(F)in the heavenly places.