John 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, is a thief and a robber.
2But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
4Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
5They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’ t know the voice of strangers.”
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7Jesus I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.
8All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’ t listen to them.
9I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and will find pasture.
10The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
11“ I am the good shepherd. + 10:11 Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22 The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
12He 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.
13The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and doesn’ t care for the sheep.
14I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;
15even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
16I have other sheep which are not of this fold. + 10:16 Isaiah 56:8 I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
17Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, + 10:17 Isaiah 53:7-8 that I may take it again.
18No 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.”
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25Jesus I told you, and you don’ t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.
26But you don’ t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
29My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
30I and the Father are one.”
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32Jesus I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”
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34Jesus t it written in your law, ‘ I said, you are gods’? + 10:34 Psalms 82:6
35If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came ( and the Scripture can’ t be broken),
36do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘ You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘ I am the Son of God’?
37If I don’ t do the works of my Father, don’ t believe me.
38But 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.”
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