John 10:22-42

Jesus at the Festival of Dedication

22 Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter. 23 Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon’s Colonnade.   24 The Jews surrounded him and asked, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense?   If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”  ,

25  “I did tell you and you don’t believe,” Jesus answered them. “The works that I do in my Father’s name testify about me. 26 But you don’t believe because you are not of my sheep.   27 My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish.  No one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”   

Renewed Efforts to Stone Jesus

31 Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone him.  

32 Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these works are you stoning me? ”

33 “We aren’t stoning you for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because you being a man make yourself God.”

34 Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law,  I said, you are gods?   35 If he called those to whom the word of God came ‘gods’ and the Scripture  cannot be broken, 36 do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the one the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?    37 If I am not doing my Father’s works, don’t believe me. 38 But if I am doing them and you don’t believe me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand  that the Father is in me and I in the Father.”    39 Then they were trying again to seize him,  but he escaped their grasp.  

Many beyond the Jordan Believe in Jesus

40 So he departed again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there. 41 Many came to him   and said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.” 42 And many believed in him there.

•          Parent’s Meeting – Nick Jefson will be having a meeting for the parents of youth grades 6-12 today at 3:30 in the Hub.
•          Wednesday Night Children’s Ministry will start back on Wednesday, September 10 (Kindergarten through 5^th grade).  Check-in will be in the Fellowship Hall. 

•          Men’s (and boys) Campout - Friday, October 10th.  Details are available under 'Event Registration' on the church website.  Please sign up by Wednesday, October 8.