CHAPTER XIII.
CHRIST AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION, AND BEYOND THE JORDAN.
1 10:22IT was the dedication at Jerusalem; it was winter; 10:23and Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch. 10:24Then the Jews came around him and said to him, How long do you hold our minds [in doubt]? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly. 10:25Jesus answered them, I have told you and you believe not; the works which I perform in my Father's name, these testify of me; 10:26but you believe not, because you are not of my sheep. As I said to you, 10:27My sheep hear my voice and I know them, and they follow me, 10:28and I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish nor shall any one pluck them out of my hand. 10:29My Father who gave [them] to me is greater than all, and no one can pluck them out of my Father's hand. 10:30I and the Father are one.
2 10:31Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. 10:32Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shown you from the Father; for which of these works do you stone me? 10:33The Jews answered him, We do not stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, and because you, being a man, make yourself God. 10:34Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said you are gods? 10:35If he called them gods to whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken, 10:36do you tell him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God? 10:37If I do not my Father's works, believe me not; 10:38but if I do, though you believe not me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I in the Father. 10:39Then they sought again to take him by force; and he escaped out of their hand.
3 10:40And he went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John first baptized, and continued there. 10:41And many came to him and said, John performed no miracle, but all things which John said of this man were true. 10:42And many believed on him there.