Once more, the Jewish leaders picked up rocks to stone him.
Jesus answered them ‘I have shown you many ‘noble’ works from my Father. For which of these works are you trying to stone me?’
The Jews replied ‘We are not stoning you for a noble work, but for blasphemy. For you, a man, are making yourself God.’
Jesus answered them: ‘Isn’t it written in your Law ‘I have spoken, “You are gods” ‘?
If those, to whom the word of God came, the Law called ‘gods’
– and the Scripture cannot be broken –
then what about the one
whom the Father set apart and sent into the world –
do you say to him “You are blaspheming,”
because I said I am the Son of God?’
If I am not doing the works of my Father,
do not believe me (when I say I am God’s Son).
But if I am
And if you do not believe me
Believe the works
So that you will start to know
and you will continue to know that
the Father is in me
I am in the Father.
So they sought to arrest him again, and he escaped from their hands.
And once more he went to the other side of the Jordan into the place where John had first baptised and he stayed there. And many people came to him and they said ‘John did not work any signs, and yet everything John said about this man is true.’ And many believed in him there.
Lord God,,
you feed us with the living bread from heaven;
you renew our faith,
increase our hope,
and strengthen our love.
Teach us to hunger
for Christ who is the true and living bread,
and to live by every word
that comes from your mouth,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.