"I and the Father Are One" — June 24 [Description]Passage Overview: John 10:22-42This passage takes place during the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah) in Jerusalem, where Jesus is walking in Solomon’s Colonnade. The Jewish leaders confront Him directly, demanding, “If You are the Christ, tell us plainly!” Jesus replies that He has already told them, and His works confirm His identity, but they don’t believe because they’re not His sheep.He describes His sheep as those who listen to His voice, know Him, and are given eternal life—with the emphatic promise that no one can snatch them out of His or the Father’s hand. Jesus then makes the bold, shocking statement: "I and the Father are one."This claim enrages the leaders, who pick up stones to kill Him for blasphemy, accusing Him of making Himself God. Jesus defends His words using Scripture (Psalms 82:6), pointing out that if human judges could be called “gods,” how much more rightly could He, the one sanctified and sent by the Father, be called God’s Son?Though they try to arrest Him, He escapes their grasp and goes across the Jordan. There, many people believe in Him, remembering that everything John the Baptist said about Jesus had come true.

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John 10:22-42365D 175.1

22 Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter.365D 175.2

23 And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.365D 175.3

24 Then the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him, “How long do You keep us in ^[d]Suspense doubt? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”365D 175.4

25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me.365D 175.5

26 But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, ^{[e]NU omits as I said to you} as I said to you.365D 175.6

27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.365D 175.7

28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.365D 175.8

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.365D 175.9

30 I and My Father are one.”365D 175.10

31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.365D 175.11

32 Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?”365D 175.12

33 The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.”365D 175.13

34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods” ’?365D 175.14

35 If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),365D 175.15

36 do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?365D 175.16

37 If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;365D 175.17

38 but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and ^{[f]NU understand} believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.”365D 175.18

39 Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.365D 175.19

40 And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing at first, and there He stayed.365D 175.20

41 Then many came to Him and said, “John performed no sign, but all the things that John spoke about this Man were true.”365D 175.21

42 And many believed in Him there.365D 175.22