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At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter,
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and Jesus was walking in the temple, 1in the colonnade of Solomon.
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So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are 2the Christ, 3tell us plainly."
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Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. 4The works that I do 5in my Father's name bear witness about me,
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but 6you do not believe because you are not part of my flock.
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7My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
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8I give them eternal life, and 9they will never perish, and 10no one will snatch them out of my hand.
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My Father, 11who has given them to me,12 is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of 13the Father's hand.
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14I and the Father are one."
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15The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.
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Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?"
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The Jews answered him, "It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but 16for blasphemy, because you, being a man, 17make yourself God."
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Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in 18your Law, 19'I said, you are gods'?
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If he called them gods to whom the word of God came--and Scripture cannot be 20broken--
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o you say of him whom 21the Father consecrated and 22sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because 23I said, 'I am the Son of God'?
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24If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me;
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but if I do them, 25even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that 26the Father is in me and I am in the Father."
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27Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.
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He went away again across the Jordan to the place 28where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.
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And many came to him. And they said, "John did no sign, but 29everything that John said about this man was true."
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And 30many believed in him there.