 How are you? How are you? Dear Heavenly Father, we praise you. We acknowledge your holy name. At this moment, we come unto your throne of praise, Father. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity to learn, Father, guide us, bless us, Father, lead us, and show through your wisdom and knowledge, Father, so that we can gain the spiritual insights and learn the very deep knowledge about your words as, Father, bless, Pastor Deepika, Pastor, so that she can teach us what the great insights of your words, Father. Thank you for each and every moment, Father. I need to get myself and all the students and to get some of this. Thank you so much, Father, for this wonderful opportunity. I ask this prayer in the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ, amen. Amen, thank you so much. Sorry, I'm sorry, Pastor, sorry. Yes. Okay, today we would be covering John's chapters 10 and 11. We had a small portion of John chapter nine left, and that forms a kind of background for the things that Jesus begins to say here in chapter 10. So we will just very briefly touch upon what Jesus says in the last portion of John chapter nine, and then we will move into John chapter 10 because then that makes more sense. So in the very last portion of John chapter nine, after Jesus has healed the blind man, and the blind man has placed his faith in Jesus, and he worships him, then the Pharisees are against him for doing this, and they actually excommunicate him. It says that they throw him out. So when that happens, this is what Jesus says. So if we were to look at John chapter nine, verses 39, 40, and 41, Jesus says this, he says, for judgment to have come into this world, so that the blind will see, and those who see will become blind, and when he makes this ironic statement, the Pharisees say, are you trying to indicate that we are blind? And then he says, if you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now that you claim, you can see your guilt remains. So basically here, the Lord is saying that again and again, I have tried to point out to you Pharisees that I am from the Father, and what I'm speaking is the truth, but you have chosen to continue being spiritually blind, and you have not accepted what I have said, but in your mind, you believe that what you are saying is true, and even though a lot of evidence is being given to you, that to show that you are wrong, you're choosing to continue to close your eyes and ignore those facts. So he is saying, anyone who is willing to look at the data, consider the evidence, and admit, yeah, I think we may have been mistaken. I think we have been blind regarding this thing, and now based on all the evidence which Jesus is presenting, maybe we need to correct ourselves, correct our ways, and rethink our earlier beliefs, and maybe we should now place our faith in Jesus. So all those who are willing to admit their spiritual blindness based on the evidence which Jesus is presenting, such people, there's no judgment held against them, simply because the Lord will be willing to forgive them because they are repentant. But someone who says, no, no, no, I am not blind, even though they can see all of the evidence and they're still refusing to admit their spiritual blindness, such people, there's only judgment left for them because they can see the evidence and they can sense that what they are saying is wrong and still they stubbornly hold onto the wrong things that they are claiming, even though all the evidence that Jesus is providing is pointing in the opposite direction. Here was a man who had been completely blind from birth, and now he's miraculously healed. And in spite of that, so which is why in fact if we look in the latter part of John chapter nine, the blind man himself, he says, how remarkable it is that you don't know who this person is because someone who can heal must definitely be from God. And so he finds it remarkable, the blind man finds it remarkable that even after evidence like this, these very learned leaders are unable to figure out who Jesus is. So this is a very deliberate blindness where they have chosen to continue believing what they want to believe and they're refusing to accept the fact that they are blind, that they are wrong. So Jesus says your guilt will remain on you because you are refusing to admit your blindness. Now immediately after this passage, we enter into the passage which talks about the good shepherd. So with keeping that the things that we saw in John chapter nine as background, let's look at chapter 10. So if we could have maybe one person read out versus one and two, please. May I read, man? Yes, please. John chapter 10 versus one and two, most assuredly I say to you, he who does not enter the sheep fold by the door but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber, but he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep, amen. Amen. So he begins by saying very truly I tell you Pharisees. So he's very clearly addressing the Pharisees and he says the true shepherd is one who has come through the right entrance in the right way with the proper preparation. So throughout the Old Testament, all the prophecies indicated that one day a messiah would come and it is an Ezekiel where you have that, I think it is Ezekiel 36, where you have that passage where the Lord says that one day he will send a shepherd who will gather all the flock to himself. So all these things about this messiah, this messianic shepherd who will come, all these things which talk about this messiah, they are getting fulfilled in Jesus. So Jesus is saying, I have come in the right way with the correct preparation and all the things which were said in the Old Testament about me, you can see those things being fulfilled, but you Pharisees, you call yourself leaders and shepherds of the people, you don't seem to be following the Old Testament, what it says about how a leader should be, about how a shepherd should be. So he points out that to them. He says, even though you don't qualify and even though you're not really doing things the way a true shepherd should, you are claiming leadership for yourself, so you have not entered in the correct manner, you have not presented your shepherdhood in the right manner, rather you have forcibly inserted yourself as leaders by climbing in in some other way, okay? So that's the point he makes over here. He says, very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate but climbs in by some other way. So here it's like Jesus is saying, the Old Testament scriptures are the gateway through which I have come. They have clearly pointed to me and now I am fulfilling all that they have said, but you seem to have claimed your leadership, your shepherdhood by climbing in through some other means because you are not fulfilling any of the requirements which are mentioned regarding a shepherd, regarding a leader in the Old Testament. And then if we can continue looking at this imagery that Jesus is using over here, if we could read out verses three and four and then we would understand this entire thing better, verses three and four please. Could we please have someone read out? The idea is that if I just go on monotonous, it's kind of boring. So if someone reads, it kind of helps so that it's like, we're moving on to the next portion. So if someone could please read out verses three and four. To him the doorkeeper opens and the sheep hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them and the sheep follow him for they know his voice a minute. Right, so now there are different ways that the shepherds of that time would watch over their flock. You would have teams of shepherds who would go out and they would go out for maybe an entire month and they would stay out there in the fields. They would not come back to the town every single night. So literally they would be there with their sheep out in the open day after day. So for them, they would not be so much any need of this kind of a sheep pen that's being mentioned over here. But then there would be shepherds who would only go just near the outskirts of the towns where they are living. So they would be returning back to the town every day. So in such cases, you would need a sheep pen where you can have the sheep kept for the night. So over here in this first portion, the first imagery that Jesus is using is talking about this kind of a sheep enclosure where every night the shepherds would come back from the outskirts and they would house the sheep over there in that particular sheep pen. So there would be one, it would be like this really large place where you could probably accommodate hundreds of sheep because it's not economical, right? Each shepherd trying to come up with his own little enclosure rather than that, the town would probably just have maybe one or two really big sheep pens where everyone can come and keep their sheep. So obviously you would have a gatekeeper who would kind of keep track of who sheep belong to whom. So who has come back inside with his flock and in the morning when they're walking out, they should not be walking out with the wrong set of sheep. So the gatekeeper kind of keeps an eye on these things. So over here, it says in verse three, the gatekeeper will open the gate to the correct shepherds, the true shepherds. He will not allow someone to come inside and steal the flock and go away, but he will make sure that only the right person is entering inside to collect his sheep and go out to take them to pasture. So it's referring to that kind of a gatekeeper. So when the shepherd would go inside and you have all these flocks of sheep in different stalls, that entire place would be divided into many, many stalls and each shepherd would be having his bunch in a separate stall. So the shepherd would go in and then he would kind of call out, they would have their own way of calling the sheep, maybe some particular distinct sound which he would make, maybe he would whistle or maybe he would call out in a particular way. And the sheep which have been hearing that particular kind of voice or whistle or whatever, by now those sheep are very familiar with that call out signal. So they would immediately respond. So that is what is being talked about here. So when Jesus talks about these things here in this passage, it's something that the people are very familiar with. It's something that they've seen on a day-to-day basis. So Jesus is saying, when the shepherd goes in over there and he calls out using his distinct calling, his sheep would immediately hear him and they would recognize that, okay, here is our master and they would be willing to follow him. And then yeah, if we could read out verses five and six, please. A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of a stranger. By the speakers of speech, Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them. Yeah, so in your textbooks, there's this incident mentioned where during World War I, you had some Turkish soldiers who wanted to steal a flock of sheep from somewhere near Jerusalem on the outskirts of Jerusalem. And when the shepherd realizes that all his sheep are being taken away, he gets up and he calls out in that distinct signature calling which he has for his flock. And so when the sheep hear that, immediately they realize that they're following somebody else and they're hearing his voice, they all come back to the shepherd and the soldiers are unable to lead this large flock and take it all away because all the sheep come rushing back when they hear the actual real owner call out. So that's basically what is being indicated here. They will never follow a stranger. In fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger's voice. Okay, so Jesus over here is saying, you leaders are trying to teach lies to the people, but those who are my sheep, those who are willing to open their hearts and hear what I am saying, they will recognize the truth in what I am saying. They will recognize my voice and they will respond because he is saying that you Pharisees, what you are teaching is wrong and my sheep will be able to discern that what you people are saying is wrong and they will be able to discern that what I am teaching is correct. So he talks about how he's calling all of his sheep to himself. Then if we could move into verses seven to 10, if we could have someone read out please. So Jesus again said to them, truly truly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and we'll go in and out and find astures. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abandoned for you. Okay, so if you notice here, you have the second very truly, okay? So the first very truly was in the first verse, chapter 10 verse one. And now here you have the next very truly in what is the verse that we read out just now? Yeah, in seven we have again very truly I tell you. So here Jesus is using a different imagery. Earlier we talked about a sheep pen, a sheep enclosure. Now over here Jesus is saying I am the gate for the sheep. So over here he's talking about a different imagery. He's talking about an enclosure which would be out in the fields. This is no longer in the towns. He's talking about some kind of temporary shelter that would be used for the sheep when they are out in the open fields. When the shepherds have gone out for maybe a month, I know for an entire month, they would be out there in the open with the sheep. And so during the night, sometimes they would try to find a cave or some kind of temporary structure which they have built using sticks and mud and things like that. So a cave of course would be ideal, but then a cave may not always be available. So they would form a kind of temporary enclosure to put the sheep inside that during the night because of wolves and other danger. So in that case, the shepherd would literally sit there in the opening. Okay, so there would be only one opening and the shepherd would literally sit there in the opening so that nothing can go inside and attack the sheep. So if any wolf wants to come, it would literally have to go through the shepherd. So he is there to defend his sheep. And now Jesus is using this imagery and he says I am the gate for the sheep. I am literally there for them and I will look after them. And he says that whoever enters through me will be saved. So over here, there are two things that Jesus is implying. One is that of course he would be the gate who will defend them and protect them. But also he is saying I am the gate through whom the sheep can enter and be saved in the sense that he's the doorway to the father. So there are two layers of meaning here. The first literal meaning would be that he's going to protect his sheep by literally being there for them as their gate. And the second is that through him, the people would be able to go to the father. He will be the doorway to the father. So we see these things being indicated over here. And then versus 11 to 13, if we could have someone read out please. You want to go ahead? I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. But a highling, he who is not shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees. And the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. The highling flees because he's a highling and does not care about the sheep. Yes. So a higherling is basically there for the higher for the money, for the pay. So he sees the sheep as a way of making money. So the sheep are over there for his benefit. He never thinks that he's there for the benefit of the sheep. He never thinks of it from that angle because he is a highling. He has just been hired and he would be paid for his work. So there's a great difference between a true shepherd and a highling. A highling will always see the people as being there for his benefit so that he can maybe gain popularity out of them or he can gain some kind of material benefits out of them or make a name for himself through them, using them. That would be a highling. On the other hand, a true shepherd realizes that he's not over there with these people to get what he can out of them, but rather he has been posted there to benefit them, to look after them, to serve them. So a true shepherd's attitude would be completely different. And this we see so clearly, right? I mean, in our Christian circles, we see shepherds whose only thought is to serve, to grow their people, to really see their people develop and become all that God wants them to be. And so they are literally there to serve, to uplift, to build up. And their entire approach to their leadership is so different. On the other hand, you see some leaders who are seeing what they can get out of the flock. So all organizations, at least for the sake of organization and structure and convenience, they appoint people and they call them pastor. But the real pastors are the one who earn that title based on what they are doing, how they live, what they do, the manner in which they are serving, that actually makes them a true pastor. So yes, it's true that the institution, the organization that you belong to will probably place a title on you and formally call you pastor. But whether you are really a true pastor or not will show up in your conduct, your decisions, the attitude with which you would be doing your pastoring. And so that is something that we would need to be very careful about those of us who are in leadership positions and those of us who have been given titles like this, we would have to be very careful whether we are really living up to that title or not. Because one day, God is going to hold us responsible for that title. When we stand there in front of the judgment seat, he'll say, okay, you were supposed to be a pastor, is it? So what kind of pastoring did you do? What kind of shepherding did you do? Because that word in Greek, it literally means shepherd. The word pastor in Greek literally means shepherd. So what kind of a shepherd were you? Is what the Lord would ask on judgment day and you would be judged based on how you did your shepherding, how you did your pastoring. So it's a rather serious role because we are all trying to imitate, Jesus the good shepherd. So are we like him? Are we shepherding with the kind of heart that he has? Or are we doing our own thing more like the Pharisees? That would become a very important question on judgment day. Yeah, coming to the next portion. That would be verse 16. If we could have someone read out verse 16, please. And other sheep I have, which are not out this fold, then also I must bring and they will hear my voice and there will be one flock and one shepherd. Yes. So here Jesus is talking about how all the people who come to him, both the people from the nation of Israel and also all the Gentile nations. So the other sheep that he's talking about here probably refers to the Gentiles who will also be added to his flock. So everyone will become part of one single flock because that's what Paul says later on. There is no Jew or Gentile. All are one because they are all under one Lord. They all have been marked and branded by one spirit as his position. So we are all one. And the shepherd would like it if all the sheep would reflect this attitude rather than seeing ourselves as being better than other people, one denomination, thinking of themselves as being superior to another denomination rather than having that kind of an attitude. If we could have an attitude where we are thinking, okay, these are the advantages that I have in my community. But then I see this other Christian community where they have these strengths but they also have these weaknesses. And if we could reach out to them and maybe help them if at all possible, selflessly reach out and help them rather than just criticizing and condemning and pointing fingers, that probably would be an attitude that the shepherd would be pleased with because he sees all of us as one single flock. And so he values all of us and treasures all of us equally. So we too would need to have that same attitude of us being one flock with one shepherd. Now, when Jesus originally spoke these words, it is possible that the Jews who were listening might have understood these other sheep as something from the Old Testament because in the Old Testament, it does talk about other sheep who will be gathered back to the shepherd in Ezekiel chapter 37. Ezekiel 37, 21 to 24, where it talks about how this shepherd, this messianic shepherd whom God will send, he will gather the scattered Israelites from all the other nations because many of them had been taken away to Babylon and they did not come back. Then those who had settled in Egypt and all those regions, many of them also chose not to come back to Jerusalem later. So all of those people also will be gathered by the shepherd in the sense he will impart his truth, he will impart his revelation even to them so that they too can have a chance to believe in him and come under his protection and his care. So when Jesus talks over here about the other sheep, it is probably of course, referring to the Gentiles but it could also be referring to all these other scattered sheep, the Jewish people who have become part of other cultures and part of other nations, but they too will be told the truth so that they too can be part of the one true flock. I think it was in your textbook, right? Where it talks about, yes, there's just a brief reference to a Roman Catholic doctrine in which they hold to the translation which was made by Jerome when he did the Latin Vulgate translation, when he translated the Bible into Latin, there he's supposed to have used the word and they shall be one fold and one shepherd and unfortunately, I'm sure that poor man did not mean anything wrong. It's just that when he used that particular word fold, one fold and one shepherd, that particular word fold in the Latin language has a kind of slight connotation of an institution or an organization. So it's like as if he's anyone who doesn't really understand the translation and it would sound to them like as if Jesus is saying, there shall be one institution and one shepherd and so the Roman Catholics, they at that of that time began to declare and say, see, we are the correct institution. We are the right fold. So anyone who is part of the Roman Catholic institution are the ones who are under the true shepherd and the rest who belong to other denominations are wrong, but I'm pretty sure that when Jerome used that word fold, he did not mean that because in the Greek, it's very, very clear that the flock over here is not talking about any institutionalized segment. It's just talking about one flock of sheep altogether. All right. Maybe we can move on to, maybe we could read verses 17 and 18. Yes. For this reason, the father loves me because I laid down my life that I need to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I laid down of my own record. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my father. Okay. So here, Jesus is talking about how he's submitting to the father to the extent that where he's even willing to lay down his life. Okay. So here he says, I have the authority to lay down my life and the authority to take it up again. So even if the father had not acted and resurrected Jesus, Jesus could have just resurrected himself on his own, but he does not do that. I mean, he waits for the father's timing and waits for the father to resurrect him in his perfect time. So Jesus does not exercise his own power, but he's pointing out the fact that he has the authority to do that. He can take up his lay down his life and take it up whenever he wishes to, but he has chosen to submit himself to the father to such an extent, where even though he has the power to raise himself up on his own, he would not do that. Okay. So Jesus points out that aspect of who he is. Maybe we could move on very quickly to the next passage. If we could have someone read out verse 22, please. Okay. Yes. Verse 22. Yes. Now it was the feast of dedication in Jerusalem and it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. Then the Jews surrounded him and said to him, Hallelujah. We'll just simply talk about that so that we'll have an understanding of what exactly is this feast of dedication and all of that. Now the one portion of the temple was called Solomon's Colonnade. It was very considered very important, very historic because I mean, as we all know, it was Herod who built this really grand structure and made the temple very grand. When the people, when the exiles came back from Babylon, they built this rather simple structure which became the second temple. And so it was not very grand or anything big, but when Herod came along, he was trying to curry favor with the locals because he himself was not a Jew. And so he wanted to somehow win the people over to his side. And so he builds them this really grand temple. But they say that this portion, the Colonnade, that actually is the original structure right from Solomon's time is what they believed because of the way the stones were put together in that particular portion, they believed that this was the original Colonnade which existed from Solomon's time. So Jesus was walking around in this Colonnade and the people came to him to hear what he is saying. And right now there's something called the Feast of Dedication going on. What exactly was this feast? It was a reminder to them of what had happened a little earlier in the second century BC when you had this Syrian king Antiochus Epiphanes. So this Syrian king, when he comes to Jerusalem, he just wants to mock the Israelites and prove his superiority. He goes into the temple and he sets up a statue of Zeus, one of his gods. He puts a statue of Zeus and an altar over there. And on this altar, which is originally been created for the sacrifices to Yahweh, on that altar he goes and sacrifices pigs simply because the pig is declared as an unclean animal by the Lord. And so he deliberately sacrifices pigs just to desecrate the temple. So he does all of these things and at that time the Maccabees, you could say maybe they're a kind of terrorist sect because maybe we would say a military, they didn't want to terrorize, they wanted to fight. So I guess we would call them a military sect. They rise up the Maccabees, they rise up and they say, we will not put up with this. We will fight for our nation. We will fight for our faith. And so they are the ones who fight against these forces of Antiochus that have taken over the place. Many of them get martyred. Many of them are tortured. They are given pig meat to eat and they're told, eat it so that you can deny your faith. And then many of them say, no, we will not. And in fact, a lot of them die, are killed. So when we look at these historical books of the Maccabees, that's basically where we read about all the things which took place. So after the intruders are all defeated and the temple is reclaimed, they once again clean it, they sanctify it, they rededicate it to the Lord. And so this feast is in remembrance of that, in remembrance of what the Maccabees did when they reclaimed the temple and they rededicated it for the Lord's purposes. So this was a seven day feast and it was considered very important in those times. And at that time, Jesus is speaking these words. So we could maybe look at what are the things that he is saying. Maybe we can have, yeah, let's read out verses 24 to 27, yeah, 24 to 27, please. Yeah, 24 to 27, please. 24 to 27. Yes. Then the Jews surrounded him and said to him, how long do you keep us in doubt? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them, I told you and you do not believe. The works that I do in my father's name, they bear witness of me, but you do not believe because you are not of my sheep. As I said to you, my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. Yes. So here Jesus says, I know that the Jews, again they come to him in Solomon's colonnade, they surround him and they say, plainly tell us whether you're really the Messiah. It's what Jesus has been telling from day one. I mean, he's told it in so many different ways and now it's rather ridiculous at this point. Again, they're asking. They're saying plainly tell us whether you are the Messiah. And so now Jesus says, if you were my sheep, you would have clearly heard what I have been saying all along, but because you are not my sheep, you are unable to hear what I am saying. And we see something similar to this in Matthew 13, 11 to 15. So if we could actually turn in our Bibles to that passage, Matthew 13, 11 to 15. And I think it would be good if we could actually read that because there it talks about people who are not God's sheep and what is the Lord's attitude towards them. So Matthew 13, 11 to 15, if we could have one person read out please. Matthew 13, 11 to 15, it says, he answered and said to them, because it has been given to you, to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. For whoever has to him more will be given and he will have abundance, but whoever does not have even what he has will be taken away from him. Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see and hearing they do not hear nor do they understand. And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled which says, hearing you will hear and shall not understand and seeing you will see and not perceive. For the hearts of this people have grown dull, their ears are hard of hearing and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn so that I should heal them amen. So here the, you know, the wording here, it so clearly describes these people that Jesus is now speaking to. He says, you know, Jesus says, my sheep, listen to my voice, I know them and they follow me. And then in the previous verse, verse 26 he says, you do not believe because you are not my sheep. And we see such a clear description of such, of that category of people here in Matthew 13, you know, where Jesus is quoting the passage from Isaiah and he says, you know, those of you who really care about these things of the kingdom, you are able to understand. And because you have that little bit and you have a desire to hold on to that little bit of truth which I have given you, more will be given to you. I will reveal more to you, your knowledge will increase. On the other hand, those who are not willing to even accept that little bit which I have revealed, even that little will be taken away from them, he says. And then quoting from the Isaiah passage, one very interesting that he say, a thing that he brings out at the very end in verse 15, he says, for this people's heart has become calloused, they hardly hear with their ears and they have closed their eyes. You see, nobody made them close their eyes. It's a choice which they have made. They chose to close their eyes. They are spiritually blind because they have chosen to be spiritually blind and yet they declare, no, we are not blind. So it's a deliberate choice which they have made because they are not his sheep and they have no interest in following him. So when Jesus goes on to say, I and the father are one, they immediately get very angry and they want to, they again try to stone him. And then at that time, yeah, at that time Jesus says, maybe we can actually look at, yeah, maybe verse 31 and 32 if we could read out. The Jews picked up stones again for stone here. Jesus answered them, I have shown you many good works from the father. For which of them are you going to stone him? The Jews wanted him. No, no, no, yeah, that should do. So earlier when they tried to stone Jesus on another occasion, he just quietly slips away. But here he does not just quietly slip away. In fact, he speaks up and he says, I have done all these good works from the father. For which of these good works are you now getting ready to stone me is what he says. Because these works that he's doing are the clear proof that he is from the father. They are the evidence. They are the signs that he is genuine, that he's genuinely the Messiah. And in spite of knowing that, in spite of having seen that, here they are getting ready to stone him. And so he's giving them one more opportunity to look into their hearts and see why are they stoning him? The motive of their heart, are they stoning him because they are concerned that he's wrongly declaring himself to be sent from the father? Or are they stoning him because he's not the kind of Messiah that they had been looking for. They had wanted something else. And now he's not what they want. He's in fact opposing them and pointing out the dirt in their heart and is asking them to change their ways. It's a lot of inconvenience. They did not want any of that. They just wanted someone who would deliver them from the hands of the Romans. So he says, all my works are clearly proving who I am. So based on all of this evidence, which portion of the evidence are you actually now stoning me for? And he goes on to talk about his works. So in verse 25, he says, the works I do in my father's name testify about me. They are the testimony. And in fact, he stresses this point again and again. He says in verse 37, do not believe me unless I do the works of my father. But if I do them, even though you don't believe me, believe the works that you may know and understand that the father is in me and I in the father. So because earlier when he said, I and the father are one, that is basically why he said it. It's because his works are proving that he is in the father and the father is in him. So again and again, so plainly, Jesus is giving them very clear opportunities to change their thinking and repent and accept him. So on judgment day, no one can say that he did not give them every opportunity to change their mind. He did, but the sad truth, like he points out, they have closed their eyes. They have deliberately chosen to close their eyes to all of these truths. And we would need to touch upon this portion, Mary talks about, I have said you are gods and if you call them gods. So maybe we can do that after we come back from our break. Yeah, we will touch upon this passage verses 34 onwards and then we will move on to other things. So right now, maybe we can go for our break and we'll come back of course at 10 o'clock. Thank you.