24. Then the Jews surrounded Him, saying, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
25. Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you did not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name bear witness of Me.
26. But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.
27. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
28. I give them eternal life. They shall never perish, nor shall anyone snatch them from My hand.
29. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them from My Father’s hand.
30. My Father and I are one.”
31. Again the Jews took up stones to stone Him.
32. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?”
33. The Jews answered Him, “We are not stoning You for a good work, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, claim to be 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 the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken,
36. do you say of Him, whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?