Saturday, June 5

35Paul and Barnabas also remained in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.

36Then after some days Paul said to Barnabas, 'Let us now go back and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they are doing.'

37Now Barnabas was determined to take with them John called Mark.

38But Paul insisted that they should not take with them the one who had departed from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.

39Then the contention became so sharp that they parted from one another. And so Barnabas took Mark and sailed to Cyprus;

40but Paul chose Silas and departed, being commended by the brethren to the grace of God.

41And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

27My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

28And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.

29My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand.

30I and My Father are one.'

31Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.

32Jesus answered them, 'Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?'

33The Jews answered Him, saying, 'For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.'

34Jesus answered them, 'Is it not written in your law, 'I said, 'You are gods''?

35If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

36do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

37If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;

38but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.'