28. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.
29. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.
30. The Father and I are one.”
31. The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.
32. Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?”
33. The Jewish leaders replied, “We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God.”
34. Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’?
35. If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ (and the scripture cannot be broken),
36. do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
37. If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.