34-38 Jesus said, “I’m only quoting your inspired Scriptures, where God said, ‘I tell you—you are gods.’ If God called your ancestors ‘gods’—and Scripture doesn’t lie—why do you yell, ‘Blasphemer! Blasphemer!’ at the unique One the Father consecrated and sent into the world, just because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I don’t do the things my Father does, well and good; don’t believe me. But if I am doing them, put aside for a moment what you hear me say about myself and just take the evidence of the actions that are right before your eyes. Then perhaps things will come together for you, and you’ll see that not only are we doing the same thing, we are the same—Father and Son. He is in me; I am in him.”

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35 If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God(A) came—and Scripture cannot be set aside(B) 36 what about the one whom the Father set apart(C) as his very own(D) and sent into the world?(E) Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?(F) 37 Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father.(G)

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