25-30 Jesus answered, “I told you, but you don’t believe. Everything I have done has been authorized by my Father, actions that speak louder than words. You don’t believe because you’re not my sheep. My sheep recognize my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them real and eternal life. They are protected from the Destroyer for good. No one can steal them from out of my hand. The Father who put them under my care is so much greater than the Destroyer and Thief. No one could ever get them away from him. I and the Father are one heart and mind.”

31-32 Again the Jews picked up rocks to throw at him. Jesus said, “I have made a present to you from the Father of a great many good actions. For which of these acts do you stone me?”

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29 My Father, who has given them to me,(A) is greater than all[a];(B) no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”(C)

31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him,(D)

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Footnotes

  1. John 10:29 Many early manuscripts What my Father has given me is greater than all