John Chapter 10 Verse 27‹My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:›

‹Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.›

‹No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.›

There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.

And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?

Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?

And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.

And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.

Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.

Jesus answered them, ‹I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.›

‹But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.›

‹And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any› [man] ‹pluck them out of my hand.›

‹My Father, which gave› [them] ‹me, is greater than all; and no› [man] ‹is able to pluck› [them] ‹out of my Father's hand.›

‹I and› [my] ‹Father are one.›

Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

Jesus answered them, ‹Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?›

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.

Jesus answered them, ‹Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?›

‹If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;›

‹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?›

‹If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.›

The Book of John, Chapter 10, Verse 27