John 10 : 1 (ESV)
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.
John 10 : 2 (ESV)
But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
John 10 : 3 (ESV)
To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
John 10 : 4 (ESV)
When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
John 10 : 5 (ESV)
A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."
John 10 : 6 (ESV)
This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
John 10 : 7 (ESV)
So Jesus again said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
John 10 : 8 (ESV)
All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
John 10 : 9 (ESV)
I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
John 10 : 10 (ESV)
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
John 10 : 11 (ESV)
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 10 : 12 (ESV)
He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.
John 10 : 13 (ESV)
He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
John 10 : 14 (ESV)
I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,
John 10 : 15 (ESV)
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
John 10 : 16 (ESV)
And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
John 10 : 17 (ESV)
For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.
John 10 : 18 (ESV)
No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father."
John 10 : 19 (ESV)
There was again a division among the Jews because of these words.
John 10 : 20 (ESV)
Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?"
John 10 : 21 (ESV)
Others said, "These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"
John 10 : 22 (ESV)
At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter,
John 10 : 23 (ESV)
and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon.
John 10 : 24 (ESV)
So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
John 10 : 25 (ESV)
Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me,
John 10 : 26 (ESV)
but you do not believe because you are not part of my flock.
John 10 : 27 (ESV)
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
John 10 : 28 (ESV)
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
John 10 : 29 (ESV)
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.
John 10 : 30 (ESV)
I and the Father are one."
John 10 : 31 (ESV)
The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.
John 10 : 32 (ESV)
Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?"
John 10 : 33 (ESV)
The Jews answered him, "It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God."
John 10 : 34 (ESV)
Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'?
John 10 : 35 (ESV)
If he called them gods to whom the word of God came- and Scripture cannot be broken-
John 10 : 36 (ESV)
do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?
John 10 : 37 (ESV)
If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me;
John 10 : 38 (ESV)
but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."
John 10 : 39 (ESV)
Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.
John 10 : 40 (ESV)
He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.
John 10 : 41 (ESV)
And many came to him. And they said, "John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true."
John 10 : 42 (ESV)
And many believed in him there.
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