Feast of Dedication
John 10:22-39
10:22It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.
10:23It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.
10:24The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
10:25Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.
10:26But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
10:27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
10:28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
10:29My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
10:30I and the Father are one.”
10:31Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
10:32Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”
10:33The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”