John 10:37-42 - They sought to arrest Him

10:37,38

Jesus then directs them to the issue they should be addressing. Is Jesus doing the works of God or not? If He isn’t then they are perfectly right not to believe Him, but if He is doing the works of God then they definitely should believe Him. In fact Jesus urges them to believe Him just because of the works. “The Father is in me and I am in the Father”. There is an intimately close relationship between the Father and the Son.

10:39-42

The religious leaders reacted to all this by trying to arrest Him, but failed to do so. The time for arrest was in God’s hands not the hands of men. Jesus then withdrew across the Jordan, to the region where John the Baptist had been operating. Many came to Jesus, and they saw that everything that John had said about the Messiah was true of Jesus. So many believed in Him. This was in stark contrast to the response by the religious leaders, by those who should have been able to recognise the truth.