John 10 : 1 (HCSB)
"I assure you: Anyone who doesn't enter the sheep pen by the door but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
John 10 : 2 (HCSB)
The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
John 10 : 3 (HCSB)
The doorkeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
John 10 : 4 (HCSB)
When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.
John 10 : 5 (HCSB)
They will never follow a stranger; instead they will run away from him, because they don't recognize the voice of strangers."
John 10 : 6 (HCSB)
Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.
John 10 : 7 (HCSB)
So Jesus said again, "I assure you: I am the door of the sheep.
John 10 : 8 (HCSB)
All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.
John 10 : 9 (HCSB)
I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.
John 10 : 10 (HCSB)
A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance.
John 10 : 11 (HCSB)
"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 10 : 12 (HCSB)
The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and doesn't own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them.
John 10 : 13 (HCSB)
*This happens because he is a hired man and doesn't care about the sheep.
John 10 : 14 (HCSB)
"I am the good shepherd. I know My own sheep, and they know Me,
John 10 : 15 (HCSB)
as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. I lay down My life for the sheep.
John 10 : 16 (HCSB)
But I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock, one shepherd.
John 10 : 17 (HCSB)
This is why the Father loves Me, because I am laying down My life so I may take it up again.
John 10 : 18 (HCSB)
No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down on My own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again. I have received this command from My Father."
John 10 : 19 (HCSB)
Again a division took place among the Jews because of these words.
John 10 : 20 (HCSB)
Many of them were saying, "He has a demon and He's crazy! Why do you listen to Him?"
John 10 : 21 (HCSB)
Others were saying, "These aren't the words of someone demon-possessed. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"
John 10 : 22 (HCSB)
Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter.
John 10 : 23 (HCSB)
Jesus was walking in the temple complex in Solomon's Colonnade.
John 10 : 24 (HCSB)
Then the Jews surrounded Him and asked, "How long are You going to keep us in suspense? If You are the Messiah, tell us plainly."
John 10 : 25 (HCSB)
"I did tell you and you don't believe," Jesus answered them. "The works that I do in My Father's name testify about Me.
John 10 : 26 (HCSB)
But you don't believe because you are not My sheep.
John 10 : 27 (HCSB)
My sheep hear My voice, I know them, and they follow Me.
John 10 : 28 (HCSB)
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish-- ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand.
John 10 : 29 (HCSB)
My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.
John 10 : 30 (HCSB)
The Father and I are one."
John 10 : 31 (HCSB)
Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone Him.
John 10 : 32 (HCSB)
Jesus replied, "I have shown you many good works from the Father. Which of these works are you stoning Me for?"
John 10 : 33 (HCSB)
"We aren't stoning You for a good work," the Jews answered, "but for blasphemy, because You-- being a man-- make Yourself God."
John 10 : 34 (HCSB)
Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, I said, you are gods?
John 10 : 35 (HCSB)
If He called those whom the word of God came to 'gods'-- and the Scripture cannot be broken--
John 10 : 36 (HCSB)
do you say, 'You are blaspheming' to the One the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?
John 10 : 37 (HCSB)
If I am not doing My Father's works, don't believe Me.
John 10 : 38 (HCSB)
But if I am doing them and you don't believe Me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in Me and I in the Father."
John 10 : 39 (HCSB)
Then they were trying again to seize Him, yet He eluded their grasp.
John 10 : 40 (HCSB)
So He departed again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and He remained there.
John 10 : 41 (HCSB)
Many came to Him and said, "John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true."
John 10 : 42 (HCSB)
And many believed in Him there.
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