010:017 For this reason my Father loves me, because I am laying down
my life in order to receive it back again.
010:018 No one is taking it away from me, but I myself am laying it down.
I am authorized to lay it down, and I am authorized to receive
it back again. This is the command I received from my Father."
010:019 Again there arose a division among the Jews because of these words.
010:020 Many of them said, "He is possessed by a demon and is mad.
Why do you listen to him?"
010:021 Others argued, "That is not the language of a demoniac:
and can a demon open blind men's eyes?"
010:022 The Dedication Festival came on in Jerusalem. It was winter,
010:023 and Jesus was walking in the Temple in Solomon's Portico,
010:024 when the Jews gathered round Him and kept asking Him, "How long
do you mean to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ,
tell us so plainly."
010:025 "I have told you," answered Jesus, "and you do not believe.
The deeds that I do in my Father's name--they give
testimony about me.
010:026 But you do not believe, because you are not my sheep.
010:027 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
010:028 I give them the Life of the Ages, and they shall never,
never perish, nor shall any one wrest them from my hand.
010:029 What my Father has given me is more precious than all besides;
and no one is able to wrest anything from my Father's hand.
010:030 I and the Father are one."
010:031 Again the Jews brought stones with which to stone Him.
010:032 Jesus remonstrated with them. "Many good deeds," He said,
"have I shown you as coming from the Father; for which of them
are you going to stone me?"
010:033 "For no good deed," the Jews replied, "are we going to stone you,