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The Book of Jesus Chapter Eight: The life of Jesus from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John in easy-to-read, chronological format.
The Feast of Dedication
NARRATOR.
It was now winter and the Feast of Dedication, Jesus was at the Temple in Jerusalem. As he was walking in the Portico of Solomon,
the Jews gathered around him and questioned him:
JEWS.
How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you're the Christ, tell us straight out [plainly]!
JESUS.
I have told you, but you didn't believe me. The works I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. But you don't believe,
because you are not of my sheep. I know my sheep, they hear my voice and follow me. I give them everlasting life and they will never
perish, neither will anyone pluck them out of my hand. My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than anyone, and no one is able to
pluck them out of my Father's hand. The Father and I are one.
NARRATOR.
At this, the Jews again picked up stones to stone him.
JESUS.
I have shown you many good works from my Father, for which of those works are you stoning me?
JEWS.
We aren't stoning you for a good work, but for blasphemy. You're only a man and yet, you claim to be God!
JESUS.
Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods.' If He called the ones to whom the Word of God came, 'gods', then the scripture
cannot be broken. Yet you say to him, the one whom the Father has sanctified [consecrated] and sent into the world, 'You are
blaspheming', and this because I said, 'I am the Son of God.' If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me. But if I do, even
though you don't believe me; believe in the works; in order that you may know and believe that the Father is in me and I am in Him.
NARRATOR.
At that, they again sought to arrest him, but he escaped out of their hands. Jesus left Jerusalem and again went to the far side of the
Jordan, where John had first baptized and he stayed there. And many people came to him and said:
PEOPLE.
John didn't perform any miracles, but all the things John told us about this man were true.
NARRATOR.
Many believed on him there.
John 10:22-42
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