John 10:30
John 10:3030I and the Father are one.”
Read as unity of purpose, not unity of essence — Jesus and the Father are "one" in agreement, mission, and intention, the same way Jesus prayed his disciples would be "one" in . The Watchtower reads the Greek hen ("one thing," neuter) as flatly equivalent to the unity of believers.
The hostile-witness response is decisive: the Jews immediately reach for stones and explain themselves at v.33 — "because you, being a man, make yourself God." If Jesus had only meant "we agree on things," that would not be blasphemous. Many prophets agreed perfectly with God in purpose; none of them were nearly stoned for saying so. Jesus does not retract the claim. The neuter hen does cut against modalism — Jesus is not saying he IS the Father, which is a different person — but it is exactly the right shape for the Trinitarian point: same essence, distinct persons. Pair with and for three independent stoning attempts triggered by claims to divine status.