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John 10

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1“Amen, amen, I tell you: the one who does not enter the sheepfold through the door, but climbs in from elsewhere, is a thief and a robber.

2But the one who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

3To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

4When he has brought all his own out, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

5But they will certainly not follow a stranger; rather, they will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”

6Jesus spoke this figure of speech to them, but they did not understand what the things were that He was speaking to them.

7So Jesus spoke to them again: “Amen, amen, I tell you that I am the door of the sheep.

8All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

9I am the door. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and find pasture.

10The thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy. I came so that they may have life and have abundance.

11I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

12The hired worker, who is not a shepherd and whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees—and the wolf seizes them and scatters them—

13because he is a hired worker and has no care for the sheep.

14I am the good Shepherd, and I know My own, and My own know Me,

15just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

16And I have other sheep that are not from this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice, and they will become one flock, one shepherd.

17For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life, so that I may take it again.

18No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down from Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. This command I received from My Father.”

19Division arose again among the Jews because of these words.

20Many of them said, “He has a demon and is mad. Why do you listen to Him?”

21Others said, “These are not the words of a demon-possessed person. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

22Then the feast of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

23and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s Portico.

24So the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him, “How long will You keep our soul in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us openly.”

25Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works I do in My Father’s name bear witness concerning Me.

26But you do not believe, because you are not from My sheep.

27My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

28And I give them eternal life, and they will certainly never perish, and no one will snatch them from My hand.

29My Father, in regard to what He has given Me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch from the Father’s hand.

30I and the Father are one.”

31Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.

32Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father. For which work among them do you stone Me?”

33The Jews answered Him, “We do not stone You for a good work, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a man, make Yourself God.”

34Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?

35If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—

36do you say to the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

37If I do not do My Father’s works, do not believe Me.

38But if I do them, even if you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and continue to know that the Father is in Me and I in the Father.”

39So they sought again to seize Him, and He went out from their hand.

40And He went away again beyond the Jordan, to the place where John was first baptizing, and remained there.

41Many came to Him and said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything John said concerning this man was true.”

42And many believed in Him there.

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