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John Chapter 10 010:001 "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. 010:002 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 010:003 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. 010:004 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
010:005 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers." 010:006 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them. 010:007 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door. 010:008 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them. 010:009 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.
010:010 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. 010:011 I am the good shepherd.{Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22} The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 010:012 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. 010:013 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.
010:014 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own; 010:015 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. 010:016 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold.{Isaiah 56:8} I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. 010:017 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life,{Isaiah 53:7-8} that I may take it again. 010:018 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." 010:019 Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words. 010:020 Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?" 010:021 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?"{Exodus 4:11} 010:022 It was the Feast of the Dedication{The "Feast of the Dedication" is the Greek name for "Chanukkah," a celebration of the rededication of the Temple.} at Jerusalem. 010:023 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch. 010:024 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." 010:025 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. 010:026 But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. 010:027 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 010:028 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 010:029 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. 010:030 I and the Father are one." 010:031 Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him. 010:032 Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father.
For which of those works do you stone me?" 010:033 The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God." 010:034 Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'{Psalm 82:6} 010:035 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken), 010:036 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?' 010:037 If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me.
010:038 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." 010:039 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand. 010:040 He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed. 010:041 Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true." 010:042 Many believed in him there.