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And it was at Hierusalem the feast of the dedication, & it was winter.

And Iesus walked in the temple in Solomons porch.

Then came the Iewes round about him, and said vnto him, How long doest thou make vs to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell vs plainely.

Iesus answered them, I told you, and ye beleeued not: the workes that I doe in my Fathers name, they beare witnesse of me.

But ye beleeue not, because ye are not of my sheepe, as I said vnto you.

My sheepe heare my voyce, and I know them, and they follow me.

And I giue vnto them eternall life, and they shall neuer perish, neither shall any man plucke them out of my hand.

My father which gaue them me, is greater then all: and no man is able to plucke them out of my fathers hand.

I and my father are one.

Then the Iewes tooke vp stones againe to stone him.

Iesus answered them, Many good workes haue I shewed you from my Father; for which of those workes doe ye stone me?

The Iewes answered him, saying, For a good worke we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because that thou, being a man, makest thy selfe God.

Iesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods?

If hee called them gods, vnto whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken:

Say ye of him, whom the father hath sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Sonne of God?

If I doe not the workes of my Father, beleeue me not.

But if I doe, though yee beleeue not me, beleeue the works: that ye may know and beleeue that the Father is in me, and I in him.

Therefore they sought againe to take him: but hee escaped out of their hand,