John 10 : 1 (WEB)
"Most assuredly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
John 10 : 2 (WEB)
But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
John 10 : 3 (WEB)
The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
John 10 : 4 (WEB)
Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
John 10 : 5 (WEB)
They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers."
John 10 : 6 (WEB)
Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.
John 10 : 7 (WEB)
Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most assuredly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door.
John 10 : 8 (WEB)
All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.
John 10 : 9 (WEB)
I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
John 10 : 10 (WEB)
The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
John 10 : 11 (WEB)
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 10 : 12 (WEB)
He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.
John 10 : 13 (WEB)
The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.
John 10 : 14 (WEB)
I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own;
John 10 : 15 (WEB)
even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
John 10 : 16 (WEB)
I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
John 10 : 17 (WEB)
Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
John 10 : 18 (WEB)
No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."
John 10 : 19 (WEB)
Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.
John 10 : 20 (WEB)
Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?"
John 10 : 21 (WEB)
Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn't possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?"
John 10 : 22 (WEB)
It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.
John 10 : 23 (WEB)
It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch.
John 10 : 24 (WEB)
The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
John 10 : 25 (WEB)
Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.
John 10 : 26 (WEB)
But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
John 10 : 27 (WEB)
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
John 10 : 28 (WEB)
I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
John 10 : 29 (WEB)
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.
John 10 : 30 (WEB)
I and the Father are one."
John 10 : 31 (WEB)
Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.
John 10 : 32 (WEB)
Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"
John 10 : 33 (WEB)
The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."
John 10 : 34 (WEB)
Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'
John 10 : 35 (WEB)
If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken),
John 10 : 36 (WEB)
Do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'
John 10 : 37 (WEB)
If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me.
John 10 : 38 (WEB)
But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."
John 10 : 39 (WEB)
They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.
John 10 : 40 (WEB)
He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.
John 10 : 41 (WEB)
Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true."
John 10 : 42 (WEB)
Many believed in him there.
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