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At that time the ^(F1)Feast of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem;

it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple area, in the portico of ^(C1)Solomon.

^(C1)The Jews then surrounded Him and began saying to Him, "How long ^(F1)will You keep us in suspense? If You are the ^(F2)Christ, tell us ^(C2)plainly."

Jesus answered them, "^(C1)I told you, and you do not believe; ^(C2)the works that I do in My Father's name, these testify of Me.

"But you do not believe, because ^(C1)you are not of My sheep.

"My sheep ^(C1)listen to My voice, and ^(C2)I know them, and they follow Me;

and I give them ^(C1)eternal life, and they will never perish; and ^(C2)no one will snatch them out of My hand.

"^(F1)My 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.

"^(C1)I and the Father are ^(F1)one."

The Jews ^(C1)picked up stones again to stone Him.

Jesus replied to them, "I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?"

The Jews answered Him, "We are not stoning You for a good work, but for ^(C1)blasphemy; and because You, being a man, ^(C2)make Yourself out to be God."

Jesus answered them, "Has it not been written in ^(C1)your ^(C2)Law: '^(C3)I SAID, YOU ARE GODS'?

"If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be nullified),

are you saying of Him whom the Father ^(C1)sanctified and ^(C2)sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, '^(C3)I am the Son of God'?

"^(C1)If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;

but if I do them, even though you do not believe Me, believe ^(C1)the works, so that you may ^(F1)know and understand that ^(C2)the Father is in Me, and I in the Father."

Therefore ^(C1)they were seeking again to arrest Him, and ^(C2)He eluded their grasp.

And He went away ^(C1)again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He stayed there.

Many came to Him and were saying, "While John performed no ^(C1)sign, yet ^(C2)everything John said about this Man was true."

And ^(C1)many believed in Him there.