Meeting Christ at the Crossroads

I and the Father Are One

²²At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, ²³and Jesus was walking in the temple, hin the colonnade of Solomon. ²⁴So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are ithe Christ, jtell us plainly.” ²⁵Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. kThe works that I do lin my Father's name bear witness about me, ²⁶but myou do not believe because you are not among my sheep. ²⁷nMy sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸oI give them eternal life, and pthey will never perish, and qno one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹My Father, rwho has given them to me,1 sis greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of tthe Father's hand. ³⁰uI and the Father are one.”

³¹vThe Jews picked up stones again to stone him. ³²Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” ³³The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but wfor blasphemy, because you, being a man, xmake yourself God.” ³⁴Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in yyour Law, z‘I said, you are gods’? ³⁵If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be abroken— ³⁶do you say of him whom bthe Father consecrated and csent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because dI said, ‘I am the Son of God’? ³⁷eIf I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; ³⁸but if I do them, feven though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that gthe Father is in me and I am in the Father.” ³⁹hAgain they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.

⁴⁰He went away again across the Jordan to the place iwhere John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained. ⁴¹And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but jeverything that John said about this man was true.” ⁴²And kmany believed in him there.