John 10

1Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who does not enter through the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up from somewhere else—that man is a thief and a robber.

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

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

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

5But they will certainly not follow a stranger; instead, 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 he was saying to them.

7So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door for the sheep.”

8All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to 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 it abundantly.

11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

12The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees—and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

13because he is a hired hand and does not care about 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 sheepfold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. Then there will be one flock, one shepherd.

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

18No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.

19Because of these words, a division arose again among the Jews.

20But many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is insane. Why do you listen to him?”

21Others were saying, “These words are not those of a demon-possessed man. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can it?”

22At that time the Feast of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

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

24So the Jews surrounded him and were saying to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

25Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in the name of my Father—these testify about me.”

26But you do not believe, because you are not among 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 forever, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

30I and the Father are one.

31So the Jews picked up stones again to stone him.

32Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning me?”

33The Jews answered him, “We are not stoning 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 those to whom the word of God came ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken—

36do you say of the one whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?”

37If I am not doing the works of my Father, 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 am in the Father.

39So they were seeking again to seize him, but he escaped from their hand.

40And he went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had first been baptizing, and he stayed there.

41And many came to him and were saying, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”

42And many believed in him there.