[10:19] Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words. [10:20] Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?" [10:21] Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn't possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?"[*]
[10:22] It was the [Feast of the Dedication] at Jerusalem. [10:23] It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch. [10:24] The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
[10:25] Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me. [10:26] But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. [10:27] My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. [10:28] I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. [10:29] My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand. [10:30] I and the Father are one."
[10:31] Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him. [10:32] Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"
[10:33] The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."
[10:34] Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'[*] [10:35] If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken), [10:36] do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?' [10:37] If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me. [10:38] But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."
[10:39] They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand. [10:40] He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed. [10:41] Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true." [10:42] Many believed in him there.
[11:1] Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. [11:2] It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick. [11:3] The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick." [11:4] But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it." [11:5] Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. [11:6] When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was. [11:7] Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let's go into Judea again."
[11:8] The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"
[11:9] Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world. [11:10] But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him." [11:11] He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."