John 10.22-42

This passage takes place during the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah) in Jerusalem. Jesus is questioned by the Jews about His identity as the Messiah. He responds by referring to His works and His relationship with the Father. He declares that He and the Father are one, which leads to an attempt to stone Him for blasphemy. Jesus defends His claim by referencing Psalm 82:6 and then retreats across the Jordan, where many believe in Him.
Key words and their Greek meanings:
1. "Feast of Dedication" (ἐγκαίνια, egkainia) - v.22 renewal, dedication. *Only occurrence in the New Testament
2. "Messiah" (Χριστός, Christos) - v. Anointed One. *Used throughout the New Testament, particularly in the Gospels and Acts
3. "Works" (ἔργα, erga) - v.25, 32, 37, 38 deeds, actions. *John uses this word frequently to refer to Jesus' miracles (e.g., John 5:36, 7:3, 9:3)
4. "Eternal life" (ζωὴν αἰώνιον, zōēn aiōnion) - v.28 life of the age to come, everlasting life. *Used in key passages like John 3:16, 5:24; 1 John 5:11
5. "Blasphemy" (βλασφημία, blasphēmia) - v.33 slander, speech injurious to another's good name. *Used in similar contexts in Matthew 26:65, Mark 14:64
6. "Believe" (ἐπίστευσαν, episteusan) - v.42 to have faith, trust. (throughout the Gospel of John. e.g., John 3:16, 6:29, 20:31)

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22 At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem;
23 it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the Portico of Solomon.
24 The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us openly.”
25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these bear witness of Me.
26 “But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep.
27 “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;
28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish—ever; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.
29 “My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
30 “I and the Father are one.”
31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him.
32 Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?”
33 The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself God.”
34 Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I SAID, YOU ARE GODS’?
35 “If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),
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’?
37 “If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
38 but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and continue knowing that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.”
39 Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, and He eluded their grasp.
40 And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He was staying there.
41 And many came to Him and were saying, “While John did no sign, yet everything John said about this man was true.”
42 And many believed in Him there.