Chapter 10                         

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10:1 “Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you. The one who does not enter through the door into the sheep fold, but climbs over another way, he is a thief by stealth and a robber by violence. 2 The one who enters in through the door, however, is the shepherd of the sheep. • 3 To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name [v] and leads them out. • 4 When he has brought out all who are his own, he goes before them and the sheep follow him, because they perceive his voice. 5 They will not follow a stranger, however, but will flee away from him, because they do not recognize the voice of strangers.” 6 Jesus spoke this allegory to them, but they did not know what He was saying. 7 Therefore Jesus said to them again, “Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you. • I am the Door of the sheep. 8 All who ever came before Me were thieves by stealth and robbers by violence, but the sheep did not hear them. • 9 I am the Door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be safe; he will go in and out and will find pasture and increase. • 10 The thief does not come except to steal, to kill, and to destroy. I came that they might possess life and possess it abundantly, excessively – and beyond all expectation. • 11 I am the good [beautiful] Shepherd. The good shepherd sets forth his soul for the sake of the sheep. 12 The hired servant, however, not being the shepherd and to whom the sheep do not belong, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees—and the wolf seizes and scatters them— 13 because he is a hired servant and is not concerned about the sheep. • 14 I am the good Shepherd; I know My own, and I am known by Mine. 15 As the Father knows Me, I also know the Father, and I set forth my soul for the sheep. {w} • 16 I also have other sheep which are not of this fold; it is necessary for me to bring those also. They will hear My voice, and there will be one flock with one Shepherd. • 17 Because I do this, the Father loves Me, because I set forth my soul, that I might actively take it back again. 18 No one removes it from Me, but I set it forth of Myself. I have the authority to set it forth, and I have the authority to actively take it back again. This full completion I received from My Father.” 19 There was division again among the Judeans on account of these words. 20 Many of them were now saying, “He has a demon and is raving mad; why do you listen to Him?” 21 Others said, “These words are not those of one who possesses a demon. No demon is able to open the eyes of the blind.” 22 These events took place during the Dedication in Jerusalem; It was winter. 23 And Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. 24 There the Judeans encircled Him, and said to Him, “How long will You hold our souls in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us boldly and plainly.” 25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in the name of My Father, these bear witness concerning Me. 26 But you do not believe, because you are not out from among My sheep. • 27 My sheep hear My voice; I know them, and they follow Me. 28 I give them age-unfolding life as well, and they will never perish into the age. Never will anyone seize them out of My hand. • 29 My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all, and no one is able to seize them out of the Father’s hand. 30 The Father and I are one.” 31 The Judeans then took up stones to stone Him. 32 Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from the Father; for which of these works do you stone Me?” 33 The Judeans answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for slander [switching right with wrong], and because You, being a HUMAN, make yourself God.” 34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said you are gods?’ 35 If [David] called them gods, to whom the word of God came, and if the Scripture cannot be made of no effect, 36 how do you say of Him whom the Father devoted [to Himself] and sent into the world, ‘You slander and switch right with wrong,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son out from God?’ 37 If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me. • 38 But if I do those works, even if you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and may come to know that the Father is inside of Me and I am inside of the Father.” 39 Then they sought to seize Him again, but He went forth out from their hand. 40 And He departed again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was at first immersing in water, and He remained there. 41 Many came to Him saying, “Indeed, John did no sign, yet everything that John said about this Man is true.” 42 And many believed into Him there.

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