23. And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch.
24. The Jews therefore came round about him, and said to him: How long dost thou hold our souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
25. Jesus answered them: I speak to you, and you believe not: the works that I do in the name of my Father, they give testimony of me.
26. But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.
27. My sheep hear my voice: and I know them, and they follow me.
28. And I give them life everlasting; and they shall not perish for ever, and no man shall pluck them out of my hand.
29. That which my Father hath given me, is greater than all: and no one can snatch them out of the hand of my Father.
30. I and the Father are one.
31. The Jews then took up stones to stone him.
32. Jesus answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my Father; for which of these works do you stone me?
33. The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, maketh thyself God.
34. Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I said you are gods?
35. If he called them gods, to whom to word of God was spoken, and the scripture cannot be broken;
36. Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world: Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God?
37. If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.