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Understanding The Bible |
Who is Jesus
Part-11
By
Joan A Deering
Jesus is in Jerusalem now. He is
still being challenged by the Jewish leaders. He says outright He and the Father
are one, claiming He is God. Things
escalate:
Jesus Asserts His Deity
22 At
that time the Feast of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem; 23 it
was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple area, in the portico of Solomon. 24 The Jews then surrounded Him and began saying to Him,
“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 do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me. 26 But
you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep. 27 My sheep listen to My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; 28 and I give them eternal
life, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. 29 My
Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and
no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”
31 The
Jews picked up stones again to stone Him. 32 Jesus
replied to them, “I
showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning
Me?” 33 The
Jews answered Him, “We are not stoning
You for a good work, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make
Yourself out to be God.” 34 Jesus
answered them, “Has
it not been 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
nullified), 36 are you saying of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world,
‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37 If
I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; 38 but
if I do them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you
may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.” 39 Therefore they were seeking again to arrest Him, and He eluded their grasp.
40 And
He went away again beyond the Jordan
to the place where John was first baptizing, and He stayed there. 41 Many
came to Him and were saying, “While John performed no sign, yet everything John said about this man was true.” 42 And many believed in Him there.
John 10:22-42