Fifth Week of Lent - Friday

John 10:31-42

The Jews again picked up rocks to stone him.
Jesus answered them,
"I have shown you many good works from my Father.
For which of these are you trying to stone me?"

The Jews answered him,
"We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy.
You, a man, are making yourself God."

Jesus answered them,
"Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods"'?
If it calls them gods to whom the word of God came,
and scripture cannot be set aside,
can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated
and sent into the world blasphemes
because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?
If I do not perform my Father's works, do not believe me;
but if I perform them, even if you do not believe me,
believe the works, so that you may realize and understand
that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

Then they tried again to arrest him; but he escaped from their power.

He went back across the Jordan to the place where
John first baptized, and there he remained.
Many came to him and said, "John performed no sign,
but everything John said about this man was true."
And many there began to believe in him.

--Reflection
They "try to arrest" Jesus, just as much of Christian history has arrested, feared and denied any message of actual union with God.