10:1
"Most certainly, 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. 10:2 But one who enters in by the door is the
shepherd of the sheep. 10:3 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. 10:4 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes
before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 10:5
They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for
they don't know the voice of strangers." 10:6 Jesus spoke this
parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.
10:7 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly,
I tell
you, I am the sheep's door. 10:8 All who came before me are thieves
and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them. 10:9 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. 10:10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and
destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
10:11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his
life for the sheep. 10:12 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. 10:13 The
hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the
sheep. 10:14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by
my own; 10:15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I
lay down my life for the sheep. 10:16 I have other sheep, which are
not of this fold.30 I must bring them also, and they will hear my
voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. 10:17 Therefore
the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it
again. 10:18 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."
10:19 Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of
these words. 10:20 Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane!
Why do you listen to him?" 10:21 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?"
10:22 It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.
10:23 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in
Solomon's porch. 10:24 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."
10:25 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. 10:26
But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
10:28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one
will snatch them out of my hand. 10:29 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. 10:30 I and the Father are one."
10:31 Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him. 10:32
Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father.
For which of those works do you stone me?"
10:33 The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you
for a good work,
but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."
10:34 Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your
law, 'I said,
you are gods?'34 10:35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of
God came (and the Scripture can't be broken), 10:36 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?' 10:37 If I don't do the works
of my Father, don't believe me. 10:38 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."
10:39 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their
hand. 10:40 He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where
John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed. 10:41 Many came to
him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said
about this man is true." 10:42 Many believed in him there.
