If thou be the Christ tell us plainly?

Jesus was asked at the Feast of the Dedication in Jerusalem―

If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly?

Jesus referred them to the tenor of his teaching, as evidence of its divine origin. 

Those Father's sheep who were prepared heard and answered his voice. 

They accepted his mission. 

They were kept in the Father's hand, and in the mission, which was to regenerate them and humanity at large, the Father, and the Teacher were One―

I and my Father are One.

The Jews understood them as an assumption of divine honour and stoned him, but He, pure, truthful Spirit, over whose transparent sincerity no shadow of duplicity ever passed, justified himself. 

He asked in amazement for which of his miracles they were about to stone him. 

For none, his accusers said, but for blasphemously claiming union with the undivided Godhead. 

Thus challenged, Jesus distinctly put aside the claim.

Why, in your own sacred records, the term is applied to many on whom the spirit was outpoured―

Ye are gods. 

How then can it be blasphemy to say of Him whom the Father himself hath sanctified and separated for so special a work, He is the Son of God? 

If you doubt, regard the works I do.