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There
was then the (Feast of) the Dedication in Jerusalem. It was winter. Jesus
walked in the temple, in the porch of Solomon. He was surrounded by the Jews and
they said to him "Until when will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ tell us
plainly." Jesus answered
them "I told you and you do not believe. The works that I do in the name of
my Father bear witness concerning me (and who I am). But you do not believe because you
are not my sheep. My sheep hear my voice. I know them and they follow me. I give life eternal to them and they
will by no means perish until the end time. Nobody will seize them out of my
hand. My Father is greater than
everything that is, and he has given (them) to me . No one can seize them out of the
hand of the Father. As for
myself and the Father, we are one." The Jews again lifted up stones that
they might stone him. Jesus
answered them "I showed you many good works of the Father. For which of these works do you
stone me?" The Jews
answered him. "We do not
stone you because of a good work but because of blasphemy and because you
who are a man, are making yourself out to be God." Jesus answered them "Has it not
been written in your law "I said you are Gods"? He (Moses?) called the people gods
when they were with the word of God and Scripture cannot be broken. The Father made a certain one
(Jesus) holy and sent him into the world and yet you tell me 'You are
blaspheming' because I said I am the Son of God. If I do not do the works of my
Father, do not believe me. But
if I do (these) even if you do not believe me, believe in the works that
you may know and continue to know that the Father is in me and I am in the
Father." They therefore
sought again to arrest him and He went
away from their grasp.
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