33. They answered, “We are not killing you because of any good work you did, but because you speak against God. You are only a human, but you say you are the same as God!”
34. Jesus answered, “It is written in your law that God said, ‘I said, you are gods.’
35. This Scripture called those people gods who received God’s message, and Scripture is always true.
36. So why do you say that I speak against God because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? I am the one God chose and sent into the world.
37. If I don’t do what my Father does, then don’t believe me.
38. But if I do what my Father does, even though you don’t believe in me, believe what I do. Then you will know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
39. They tried to take Jesus again, but he escaped from them.
40. Then he went back across the Jordan River to the place where John had first baptized. Jesus stayed there,