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and I give them eternal life. They will absolutely never be destroyed, and no one will snatch them from my hands.

My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; and no one can snatch them from the Father’s hands.

I and the Father are one.”

Once again the Judeans picked up rocks in order to stone him.

Yeshua answered them, “You have seen me do many good deeds that reflect the Father’s power; for which one of these deeds are you stoning me?”

The Judeans replied, “We are not stoning you for any good deed, but for blasphemy — because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God .”

Yeshua answered them, “Isn’t it written in your Torah, ‘I have said, “You people are Elohim’ ”?

If he called ‘elohim’ the people to whom the word of Elohim was addressed (and the Tanakh cannot be broken),

then are you telling the one whom the Father set apart as holy and sent into the world, ‘You are committing blasphemy,’ just because I said, ‘I am a son of Elohim’?

“If I am not doing deeds that reflect my Father’s power, don’t trust me.

But if I am, then, even if you don’t trust me, trust the deeds; so that you may understand once and for all that the Father is united with me, and I am united with the Father.”

One more time they tried to arrest him, but he slipped out of their hands.

He went off again beyond the Yarden, where Yochanan had been immersing at first, and stayed there.

Many people came to him and said, “Yochanan performed no miracles, but everything Yochanan said about this man was true.”

And many people there put their trust in him.

(This Miryam, whose brother El‘azar had become sick, is the one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)

So the sisters sent a message to Yeshua, “Lord, the man you love is sick.”

On hearing it, he said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may receive glory through it.”

Yeshua loved Marta and her sister and El‘azar;

so when he heard he was sick, first he stayed where he was two more days;

then, after this, he said to the talmidim, “Let’s go back to Y’hudah.”

The talmidim replied, “Rabbi! Just a short while ago the Judeans were out to stone you — and you want to go back there?”

Yeshua answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a person walks during daylight, he doesn’t stumble; because he sees the light of this world.

Yeshua said these things, and afterwards he said to the talmidim, “Our friend El‘azar has gone to sleep; but I am going in order to wake him up.”

The talmidim said to him, “Lord, if he has gone to sleep, he will get better.”