24. So the Jews surrounded him and began to say to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly!”
25. Jesus answered them, “I told you and you do not believe! The deeds that I do in the name of my Father, these testify about me.
26. But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep!
27. My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
28. And I give them eternal life, and they will never perish forever, and no one will seize them out of my hand.
29. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can seize them from the Father’s hand.
30. The Father and I are one.”