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22At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23and Jesus was walking in the temple, in 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 the Christ, tell us plainly.� 25Jesus answered them, �I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father�s name bear witness about me, 26but you do not believe because you are not part of my flock. 27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29My Father, who has given them to me,� is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father�s hand. 30I and the Father are one.�

31The 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 for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.� 34Jesus answered them, �Is it not written in your Law, ��I said, you are gods�? 35If he called them gods to whom the word of God came�and Scripture cannot be broken�36do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, �You are blaspheming,� because I said, �I am the Son of God�? 37If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; 38but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.� 39Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.