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The Jews took up stones again to stone him.
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Jesus replied, "I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?"
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The Jews answered, "It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you, but for blasphemy, because you, though only a human being, are making yourself God."
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Jesus answered, "Is it not written in your law, "I said, you are gods'?
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If those to whom the word of God came were called "gods'—and the scripture cannot be annulled—
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can you say that the one whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world is blaspheming because I said, "I am God's Son'?
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If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me.
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But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."
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Then they tried to arrest him again, but he escaped from their hands.