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Day 25 of 47 going through John's gospel - more info at https://www.severnvineyard.org/time-space-jesus

What could happen if you take time and make space with Jesus today? This ten-minute podcast is part reading, part music, and part silence, all designed to help you create a space to picture and feel the scene with Jesus in it. You can use this space in lots of ways, including meditation, prayer, re-reading the passage or thinking about what it means for you today.

Today's reflection: What about Jesus makes you trust that he is who he claims to be?

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The time came for the Festival of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon\u2019s Porch. The Jews surrounded Jesus and said to him, \u201cHow long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.\u201d

Jesus answered them, \u201cI told you, and you don\u2019t believe. The works that I do in my Father\u2019s name, these testify about me. But you don\u2019t believe, because you are not my sheep. My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of my Father\u2019s hand. I and the Father are one.\u201d

Again, the Jews picked up stones to stone him. Jesus answered them, \u201cI have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of those works do you stone me?\u201d

The Jews answered him, \u201cWe don\u2019t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, a man, make yourself out to be God.\u201d

Jesus answered them, \u201cIsn\u2019t it written in your law, \u2018I said, you are gods?\u2019 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can\u2019t be set aside), why do you say, \u2018You blaspheme!\u2019 to the one the Father set apart, made holy and sent into the world, because I said, \u2018I am the Son of God?\u2019 If I don\u2019t do the works of my Father, don\u2019t believe me. But if I do them, even if you don\u2019t believe me, believe the works, so you may know and truly understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.\u201d

Again, they sought to seize him, but he got out of their hands. Again, he went away, beyond the Jordan into the place where John first baptised, and he stayed there. Many came to him. They said, \u201cJohn did no miracles, but everything that John said about this man was true.\u201d And many people there believed and trusted in Jesus.