John 10: 31–42
The
Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus replied, “I have shown you many
good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?” 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.”
Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods'? If
those to whom the word of God came were called 'gods' - and the scripture
cannot be annulled - 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'? If I
am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me. 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.” Then they tried to
arrest him again, but he escaped from their hands. He went away again across
the Jordan
to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there. Many
came to him, and they were saying, John performed no sign, but everything that
John said about this man was true. And many believed in him there.
Reflection
What
Jesus says reminds us that God’s word is not empty. Can I see how God’s word fulfills in me?
In my prayer, I ask God to give me the grace to
be a doer of his Word.