^{23 Ref} It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch.

^{24 Ref} The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

^{25 Ref} Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.

^{26 Ref} But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

^{27 Ref} My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

^{28 Ref} I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

^{29 Ref} My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.

^{30 Ref} I and the Father are one."

^{31 Ref} Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.

^{32 Ref} Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"

^{33 Ref} The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."

^{34 Ref} Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'

^{35 Ref} If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken),

^{36 Ref} Do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'

^{37 Ref} If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me.

^{38 Ref} But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."