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| | Jesus answered, "I already told you, and you are refusing to believe: the works that I do in my Father's name are testifying about me. But you are refusing to believe because, as I have already said to you, you are not my sheep. My sheep hear my voice, I know them, they follow me, and I give them everlasting life. They shall never, ever be destroyed, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. | | Jesus answered, "I already told you, and you are refusing to believe: the works that I do in my Father's name are testifying about me. But you are refusing to believe because, as I have already said to you, you are not my sheep. My sheep hear my voice, I know them, they follow me, and I give them everlasting life. They shall never, ever be destroyed, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. |
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| − | "My Father, who is greater than everyone and everything, has given them to me, and no one has the ability to snatch them out of the Father's hand. | + | "My Father, who is greater than everyone and everything, has given them to me, and no one has the ability to snatch them out of the Father's hand.The Father and I are one." |
| − | |This is a continuation of the previous guarantee: Once we believe in Jesus, no outside force of any kind, whether human or demonic, can ever, by any means, forcefully snatch us away from God because nothing and on one is stronger than He.
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| + | Once again, the Jews picked up stones so that they could stone Him. Jesus responded, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these works do you stone me?" The Jews answered, "We are not stoning you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, although you are only a man, are making yourself God." Jesus responded, "It is written in your law, 'I said you are gods,' isn't it?" |
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| − | |<span id="10:30"></span>I and my Father are one.
| + | "The scriptures cannot be broken into pieces, so if He called them gods, to whom the Word of God came, then how can you say of the one whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'you are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?' If I do not do the works of my Father, then don't believe in me. But if I do them, even though you do not believe in me, believe in the works, so that you can know, and understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father." |
| − | |The Father and I are one."
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| − | |This statement is considered blasphemous by Jews. No human can be one with God, because that would make us [[equal with God]].
| + | Undeterred, they again tried to grab Him, but He slipped through their grasp,and once again He went across the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He stayed there. |
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| + | Many people came to Him, and they said, "Even though John did not do any miracles, everything John said about this man is true." And many in that place believed in Him. |
| − | |<span id="10:31"></span>Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
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| − | |Once again, the Jews picked up stones so that they could stone Him.
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| − | |This was not the first time they had done this, and this shows what their motivations were from the very beginning. Their question about Jesus' identity as the Messiah was for no other reason than so they would have an excuse to kill Him.
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| − | |<span id="10:32"></span>Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
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| − | |Jesus responded, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these works do you stone me?"
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| − | |Remember, Jesus made the claim earlier that it was His miracles which proved His claims were true. Thus, if they had a problem with what He said, they must also have a problem with what He did: that is, they must believe His miracles were not from God. So His question is: Which of my miracles was not from God?
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| − | |<span id="10:33"></span>The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
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| − | |<span id="10:34"></span>Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
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| − | |Jesus responded, "It is written in your law, 'I said you are gods,' isn't it?"
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| − | |<span id="10:35"></span>If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
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| − | |The scriptures cannot be broken into pieces, so if He called them gods, to whom the Word of God came,
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| − | |When Jesus says that "the scriptures cannot be broken into pieces (destroyed)," He is not making an absolute statement that that the scriptures can never be wrong. This is an idiom meaning "to smash it up into pieces and only keep the pieces you like, discarding all the pieces you don't like." In other words, the scriptures are a whole, and should be accepted or rejected as a whole. Either accept that ALL of the scriptures are the Word of God, or reject ALL of the scriptures. Do NOT pick and choose what you do or do not want to believe simply because you don't LIKE what some of it says.
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| − | |<span id="10:36"></span>Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
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| − | |<span id="10:38"></span>But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
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| − | |<span id="10:39"></span>Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
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| − | |<span id="10:40"></span>And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.
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| − | |<span id="10:41"></span>And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.
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| − | |<span id="10:42"></span>And many believed on him there.
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| | == See also == | | == See also == |