Father is in Me and that I am in the Father
It was winter, and the Festival of the
Dedication of the Temple was being celebrated in Jerusalem. Jesus was walking in Solomon’s Porch in the
Temple, when the people gathered round him and asked, “How long are you going
to keep us in suspense? Tell us the plain truth are you the Messiah?”
Jesus answered, “I have already told you, but
you would not believe me. The things I do by my Father’s authority speak on my
behalf, but you will not believe, for you are not my sheep. My sheep listen to
my voice, I know them, they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall
ever die. No one can snatch them away from me. What my Father has given me is
greater than everything, and no one can snatch them away from the Father’s
care. The Father and I are one.
Then the people again picked up stones to throw
at him. Jesus said to them, “I have done many good deeds in your presence which
the Father gave me to do; for which one of these do you want to stone me?”
They replied, “we do not want to stone you
because of any good deeds, but because of your blasphemy! You are only a man,
but you are trying to make yourself God!”
Jesus answered, “it is written in your own Law
that God said, ‘you are gods.’ We know that the scripture says is true for
ever, and God called those people gods, the people to whom his message as
given. As for me, the Father chose me
and sent me into the world. How, then, can you say that I blaspheme because I
said that I am the Son of God? Do not believe me, then, if I am not doing the
things my Father wants me to do. But if
I do them, even though you do not believe me, you should at least believe my
deeds, in order that you may know once and for all that the Father is in me and
that I am in the Father.”
Once more they tried to seize Jesus, but he
slipped out of their hands. Jesus then
went back again across the River Jordan to the place where John had been
baptizing, and he stayed there. Many people came to him. “John performed no miracles.” They said, “but
everything he said about this man was true.” And many people there believed in
him.
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