Believe the Works

The Good Shepherd · John 10

Story guide: His opponents take up stones, and Jesus answers them about his works and words. The image selects their exchange, not the later attempted seizure or an invented miraculous escape.

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31So the Jews picked up stones again to stone him.

32Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning me?”

33The Jews answered him, “We are not stoning you for a good work, but for blasphemy, and because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

34Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?”

35If he called those to whom the word of God came ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken—

36do 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 am not doing the works of my Father, do not believe me;

38But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and continue to know that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.

39So they were seeking again to seize him, but he escaped from their hand.

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