| | 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?" | | 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?" |
| − | "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 scriptures cannot be broken into pieces, so if their author 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." |
| | 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. | | 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. |