22 By then it was winter and the time for the Jewish Festival of Dedication in Yerushalem (Jerusalem). 23 Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) was walking in the temple in an area known as Shelomoh’s Porch 24 when he was surrounded by the Jewish religious leaders and interrogated, “How long do you plan to keep us in suspense for? If you are the messiah, just tell us clearly.”

25 “I already told you all,” Yeshua answered, “but you didn’t believe me. The miracles that I do with the authority of my father testify about me, 26 but you don’t accept what the miracles point to because you aren’t part of my flock. 27 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow after me. 28 I give them life which will never end so they won’t ever be destroyed, and no one will be able to snatch them away from me. 29 My father is the one who gave them to me, and he’s more powerful than any other, so no one can snatch them away from him. 30 The father and I are one.”

31 Again the Jewish leaders picked up rocks to throw at him to kill him 32 but Yeshua asked them, “I showed you all many miracles from my father. Which miracle do you want to kill me for?”

33 They answered, “It’s not for any good deed that we think you deserve to die, but because you, a human, dishonour God by claiming to be him.”[ref]

34 Yeshua answered, “Isn’t it written in your scriptures that God said, ‘You all are gods’?[ref] 35 Now the scriptures can’t be wrong, and if the ones who heard teaching from God were called gods, 36 why are you telling the one that the father blessed and sent out into the world that I am insulting God because I said that I’m God’s son? 37 If I’m not doing my father’s work, then you don’t need to believe that he sent me, 38 but if I am doing his work, even if you don’t believe that he sent me, at least believe in what I do so that you all can know that the father is in me and I’m in the father.”

39 That was enough that they tried yet again to arrest him, but he was able to get out and away from their influence.

40 Then Yeshua crossed the Yarden (Jordan) river to the place where Yohan (John; Grk. Yoannes) had immersed the people,[ref] and he stayed there. 41 Many people visited him there, and they were saying that even though Yohan had never done even one miracle, on the other hand everything that he had said about Yeshua was true, 42 and many people there believed that Yeshua was from God.