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No one takes 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 command I have received from My Father."
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Therefore there was a division again among the Jews because of these sayings.
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And many of them said, "He has a demon and is mad. Why do you listen to Him?"
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Others said, "These are not the words of one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"
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Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter.
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And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch.
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Then the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him, "How long do You keep us in doubt? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly."
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Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father's name, they bear witness of Me.
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But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.
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My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
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And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.
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My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand.
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I and My Father are one."
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Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
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Jesus answered them, "Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?"
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The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."
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Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods" '?
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If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),
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do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?
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If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
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but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him."
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Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.
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And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing at first, and there He stayed.
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Then many came to Him and said, "John performed no sign, but all the things that John spoke about this Man were true."
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And many believed in Him there.