10:1 Truly, truly, I say to you+, He who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
10:2 But he who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
10:3 To him the porter opens; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
10:4 When he has put forth all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
10:5 And a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him: for they don't know the voice of strangers.
10:6 This parable Jesus spoke to them: but they didn't understand what things they were which he spoke to them.
10:7 Jesus therefore said again, Truly, truly, I say to you+, I am the door of the sheep.
10:8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
10:9 I am the door; by me if any man enters in, he will live, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
10:10 The thief does not come, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have [it] abundantly.
10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his soul for the sheep.
10:12 He who is a hired worker, and not a shepherd, whose sheep are not his own, watches the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees, and the wolf snatches them, and scatters [them]:
10:13 [he flees] because he is a hired worker, and does not care for the sheep.
10:14 I am the good shepherd; and I know my own, and my own know me,
10:15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my soul for the sheep.
10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: I must also bring them, and they will hear my voice; and they will become one flock, one shepherd.
10:17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my soul, that I may take it again.
10:18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment I received from my Father.
10:19 There arose a division again among the Jews because of these words.
10:20 And many of them said, He has a demon, and is insane; why do you+ hear him?
10:21 Others said, These are not the sayings of one possessed with a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?
10:22 Then came the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter,
10:23 and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch.
10:24 The Jews therefore came around him, and said to him, How long do you take away our soul in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.
10:25 Jesus answered them, I told you+, and you+ do not believe: the works that I do in my Father's name, these bear witness of me.
10:26 But you+ do not believe, because you+ are not of my sheep.
10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
10:28 and I give to them eternal life; and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
10:29 What my Father has given to me is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch out of the Father's hand.
10:30 I and the Father are one.
10:31 The Jews took up stones again to stone him.
10:32 Jesus answered them, Many good works I have shown you+ from the Father; for which of those works do you+ stone me?
10:33 The Jews answered him, For a good work we don't stone you, but for blasphemy; and because you, being a man, make yourself God.
10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your+ law, I said, You+ are gods?
10:35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken),
10:36 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?
10:37 If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me.
10:38 But if I do them, though you+ don't believe me, believe the works: that you+ may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.
10:39 Therefore they sought again to take him: and he went forth out of their hand.
10:40 And he went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was at the first baptizing; and there he stayed.
10:41 And many came to him; and they said, John indeed did no sign: but all things whatever John spoke of this man were true.
10:42 And many believed on him there.