John 10:31-42

Living Bible

³¹ Then again the Jewish leaders picked up stones to kill him.

³² Jesus said, “At God’s direction I have done many a miracle to help the people. For which one are you killing me?”

³³ They replied, “Not for any good work, but for blasphemy; you, a mere man, have declared yourself to be God.”

^34-36 “In your own Law it says that men are gods!” he replied. “So if the Scripture, which cannot be untrue, speaks of those as gods to whom the message of God came, do you call it blasphemy when the one sanctified and sent into the world by the Father says, ‘I am the Son of God’? ³⁷ Don’t believe me unless I do miracles of God. ³⁸ But if I do, believe them even if you don’t believe me. Then you will become convinced that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

³⁹ Once again they started to arrest him. But he walked away and left them, ⁴⁰ and went beyond the Jordan River to stay near the place where John was first baptizing. ⁴¹ And many followed him.

“John didn’t do miracles,” they remarked to one another, “but all his predictions concerning this man have come true.” ⁴² And many came to the decision that he was the Messiah.^[a]