Jesus at the Feast of the Dedication

²² Then the feast of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, ²³ and Jesus was walking in the temple in the Portico of Solomon. ²⁴ So the Jews surrounded him and began to say^[a] to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense?^[b] If you are the Christ, tell us plainly!” ²⁵ Jesus answered them, “I told you and you do not believe! The deeds that I do in the name of my Father, these testify about me. ²⁶ But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep! ²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ And I give them eternal life, and they will never perish forever,^[c] and no one will seize them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father, who has given them^[d] to me, is greater than all, and no one can seize them^[e] from the Father’s hand. ³⁰ The Father and I are one.”

³¹ Then^[f] the Jews picked up stones again so that they could stone him. ³² Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?” ³³ The Jews answered him, “We are not going to stone you concerning a good deed, but concerning blasphemy, and because you, although you^[g] are a man, make yourself to be God!” ³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods”’?^{[h] 35} If he called them ‘gods’ to whom the word of God came—and the scripture cannot be broken— ³⁶ do you say about he whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? ³⁷ If I do not do the deeds of my Father, do not believe me. ³⁸ But if I am doing them,^[i] even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” ³⁹ So they were seeking again to seize him, and he departed out of their hand.