Chapter XIII

CHRIST AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION, AND BEYOND THE JORDAN.

1 [10:22]IT was the dedication at Jerusalem; it was winter; [10:23]and Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch. [10:24]Then 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. [10:25]Jesus answered them, I have told you and you believe not; the works which I perform in my Father's name, these testify of me; [10:26]but you believe not, because you are not of my sheep. As I said to you, [10:27]My sheep hear my voice and I know them, and they follow me, [10:28]and I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish nor shall any one pluck them out of my hand. [10:29]My Father who gave [them] to me is greater than all, and no one can pluck them out of my Father's hand. [10:30]I and the Father are one.

2 [10:31]Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. [10:32]Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shown you from the Father; for which of these works do you stone me? [10:33]The Jews answered him, We do not stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, and because you, being a man, make yourself God. [10:34]Jesus answered them, Is it not 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 cannot be broken, [10:36]do you tell him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God? [10:37]If I do not my Father's works, believe me not; [10:38]but 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. [10:39]Then they sought again to take him by force; and he escaped out of their hand.

3 [10:40]And he went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John first baptized, and continued there. [10:41]And many came to him and said, John performed no miracle, but all things which John said of this man were true. [10:42]And many believed on him there.