¹⁷ In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father^(A) is always at his work^(B) to this very day, and I too am working.”

¹⁸ For this reason they tried all the more to kill him;^(A) not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.^(B)

³⁰ I and the Father are one.”^(A)

³¹ Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him,^{(B) 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.”^(C)

³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law,^(D) ‘I have said you are “gods”’^[a]?^{(E) 35} If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God^(F) came—and Scripture cannot be set aside^(G)— ³⁶ what about the one whom the Father set apart^(H) as his very own^(I) and sent into the world?^(J) Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?^{(K) 37} Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father.^{(L) 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.”^{(M) 39} Again they tried to seize him,^(N) but he escaped their grasp.^(O)

Whose Son Is the Messiah?^(A)

⁴¹ While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, ⁴² “What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?”

“The son of David,”^(B) they replied.

⁴³ He said to them, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’? For he says,

⁴⁵ If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” ⁴⁶ No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.^(D)