1000617 Jews confront Jesus in the temple – John 10:22-39, December A.D. 28 Jerusalem
And it was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. And the Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, say it to us plainly.” And Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. And I give eternal life to them. And they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 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. I and the Father are one.”
The Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these works do you stone me?” And the Jews answered him, “We do not stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.” And Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’ If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’ If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me. But if I do them, though you do not believe me, believe the works; that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” And they sought again to take him, and he went out of their hand.
