22It came to pass then that the Feast of Dedication was in Jerusalem; it was winter.23And Jesus was walking in the sacred place in Solomon's Portico.24Therefore the Jews surrounded him and said to him, "Until when do you take up our soul? If you are the Christ, tell us with boldness."25Jesus answered them, "I told you, yet you do not believe the works that I do in my Father's name; these testify concerning me."26But you do not believe because you are not of my sheep.27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.28And I give them eternal life, and they will not perish into the age, and no one will seize them out of my hand.29My Father, who has given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to seize out of the Father's hand.30I and the Father are one.31Again the Jews picked up stones in order to stone him.32Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?"33The Jews answered him, "We are not stoning you about a good work but about blasphemy, and because you, being a human, make yourself God."34Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law that I said, 'You are gods?'"35If he called those gods to whom the word of God came, and Scripture cannot be loosed,36can you say of the one whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?37If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me.38But if I am doing them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.39Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped from their hands.40And he went away again to the other side of the Jordan into the place where John was at first baptizing, and he stayed there.41Many came to him and said, "John performed no sign, yet everything that John said about this man was true."42And many believed in him there.