Renewed Efforts to Stone Jesus

³¹ Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone him.^(A)

³² Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works^(B) from the Father. For which of these works are you stoning me?”

³³ “We aren’t stoning^(C) you for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because you—being a man—make yourself God.”

³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law,^[a] I said, you are gods?^{[b](D) 35} If he called those to whom the word^(E) of God came ‘gods’—and the Scripture^(F) cannot be broken— ³⁶ do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the one the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?^{(G) 37} If I am not doing my Father’s works,^(H) don’t believe me. ³⁸ But if I am doing them and you don’t believe me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand^[c] that the Father is in me and I in the Father.”^{(I) 39} Then they were trying again to seize him,^(J) but he escaped their grasp.^(K)