John 10 : 1 (NLT)
"I tell you the truth, anyone who sneaks over the wall of a sheepfold, rather than going through the gate, must surely be a thief and a robber!
John 10 : 2 (NLT)
But the one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.
John 10 : 3 (NLT)
The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
John 10 : 4 (NLT)
After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice.
John 10 : 5 (NLT)
They won't follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don't know his voice."
John 10 : 6 (NLT)
Those who heard Jesus use this illustration didn't understand what he meant,
John 10 : 7 (NLT)
so he explained it to them: "I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep.
John 10 : 8 (NLT)
All who came before me were thieves and robbers. But the true sheep did not listen to them.
John 10 : 9 (NLT)
Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved. They will come and go freely and will find good pastures.
John 10 : 10 (NLT)
The thief's purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.
John 10 : 11 (NLT)
"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep.
John 10 : 12 (NLT)
A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will abandon the sheep because they don't belong to him and he isn't their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock.
John 10 : 13 (NLT)
The hired hand runs away because he's working only for the money and doesn't really care about the sheep.
John 10 : 14 (NLT)
"I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me,
John 10 : 15 (NLT)
just as my Father knows me and I know the Father. So I sacrifice my life for the sheep.
John 10 : 16 (NLT)
I have other sheep, too, that are not in this sheepfold. I must bring them also. They will listen to my voice, and there will be one flock with one shepherd.
John 10 : 17 (NLT)
"The Father loves me because I sacrifice my life so I may take it back again.
John 10 : 18 (NLT)
No one can take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what my Father has commanded."
John 10 : 19 (NLT)
When he said these things, the people were again divided in their opinions about him.
John 10 : 20 (NLT)
Some said, "He's demon possessed and out of his mind. Why listen to a man like that?"
John 10 : 21 (NLT)
Others said, "This doesn't sound like a man possessed by a demon! Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"
John 10 : 22 (NLT)
It was now winter, and Jesus was in Jerusalem at the time of Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication.
John 10 : 23 (NLT)
He was in the Temple, walking through the section known as Solomon's Colonnade.
John 10 : 24 (NLT)
The people 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 (NLT)
Jesus replied, "I have already told you, and you don't believe me. The proof is the work I do in my Father's name.
John 10 : 26 (NLT)
But you don't believe me because you are not my sheep.
John 10 : 27 (NLT)
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
John 10 : 28 (NLT)
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from me,
John 10 : 29 (NLT)
for my Father has given them to me, and he is more powerful than anyone else. No one can snatch them from the Father's hand.
John 10 : 30 (NLT)
The Father and I are one."
John 10 : 31 (NLT)
Once again the people picked up stones to kill him.
John 10 : 32 (NLT)
Jesus said, "At my Father's direction I have done many good works. For which one are you going to stone me?"
John 10 : 33 (NLT)
They replied, "We're stoning you not for any good work, but for blasphemy! You, a mere man, claim to be God."
John 10 : 34 (NLT)
Jesus replied, "It is written in your own Scriptures that God said to certain leaders of the people, 'I say, you are gods!'
John 10 : 35 (NLT)
And you know that the Scriptures cannot be altered. So if those people who received God's message were called 'gods,'
John 10 : 36 (NLT)
why do you call it blasphemy when I say, 'I am the Son of God'? After all, the Father set me apart and sent me into the world.
John 10 : 37 (NLT)
Don't believe me unless I carry out my Father's work.
John 10 : 38 (NLT)
But if I do his work, believe in the evidence of the miraculous works I have done, even if you don't believe me. Then you will know and understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father."
John 10 : 39 (NLT)
Once again they tried to arrest him, but he got away and left them.
John 10 : 40 (NLT)
He went beyond the Jordan River near the place where John was first baptizing and stayed there awhile.
John 10 : 41 (NLT)
And many followed him. "John didn't perform miraculous signs," they remarked to one another, "but everything he said about this man has come true."
John 10 : 42 (NLT)
And many who were there believed in Jesus.
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