24. So the Yehuḏim surrounded Him and said to Him, “How long do You keep us in suspense? If You are the Messiah, say to us plainly.”
25. יהושע answered them, “I have told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s Name, they bear witness concerning Me.
26. “But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.
27. “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
28. “And I give them everlasting life, and they shall by no means ever perish, and no one shall snatch them out of My hand.
29. “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.
30. “I and My Father are one.”
31. Again the Yehuḏim picked up stones to stone Him.
32. יהושע answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. Because of which of these works do you stone Me?”
33. The Yehuḏim answered Him, saying, “We do not stone You for a good work, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself Elohim.”
34. יהושע answered them, “Is it not written in your own Torah, ‘I said, “You are elohim” ’?
35. “If He called them elohim, to whom the word of Elohim came – and it is impossible for the Scripture to be broken –
36. do you say of Him whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of Elohim’?
37. “If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
38. but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.”
39. Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, but He went forth out of their hand,
40. and went once more to the other side of the Yardĕn to the place where Yoḥanan was immersing at first, and there He stayed.
41. And many came to Him and said, “Yoḥanan indeed did no sign, yet all that Yoḥanan said about this Man was true.”