31 Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him, |
32 but Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many great miracles from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?" |
33 "We are not stoning you for any of these," replied the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God." |
34 Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I have said you are gods'5 10:34 Psalm 82:6 ? |
35 If he called them 'gods,' to whom the word of God came--and the Scripture cannot be broken-- |
36 what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, 'I am God's Son'? |
37 Do not believe me unless I do what my Father does. |
38 But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father." |
39 Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp. |
40 Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing in the early days. Here he stayed |
41 and many people came to him. They said, "Though John never performed a miraculous sign, all that John said about this man was true." |
42 And in that place many believed in Jesus. |
