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’s Porch. The Jews surrounded Jesus and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. But you don’t 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’s hand. I and the Father are one.”

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

The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, a man, make yourself out to be God.”

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’ If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be set aside), why do you say, ‘You blaspheme!’ to the one the Father set apart, made holy and sent into the world, because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’ If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. But if I do them, even if you don’t believe me, believe the works, so you may know and truly understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.”

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, “John did no miracles, but everything that John said about this man was true.” And many people there believed and trusted in Jesus.