10 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. 2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5 y A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” 6 This figure of speech Jesus z used with them, but they a did not understand what he was saying to them.
7 So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, b I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, c he will be saved and will go in and out and d find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and e kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. 11 f I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd g lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is h a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and i leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and j scatters them. 13 He flees because k he is a hired hand and l cares nothing for the sheep. 14 m I am the good shepherd. n I know my own and o my own know me, 15 p just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and q I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And r I have other sheep that are not of this fold. s I must bring them also, and t they will listen to my voice. So there will be u one flock, v one shepherd. 17 w For this reason the Father loves me, x because y I lay down my life that I may take it up again. 18 z No one takes it from me, but y I lay it down a of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and b I have authority to take it up again. c This charge I have received from my Father.”
19 d There was again a division among the Jews because of these words. 20 Many of them said, e “He has a demon, and f is insane; why listen to him?” 21 Others said, “These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. g Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
22 At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23 and Jesus was walking in the temple, h in the colonnade of Solomon. 24 So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are i the Christ, j tell us plainly.” 25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. k The works that I do l in my Father's name bear witness about me, 26 but m you do not believe because you are not part of my flock. 27 n My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 o I give them eternal life, and p they will never perish, and q no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, r who has given them to me, [1] s is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of t the Father's hand. 30 u I and the Father are one.”
31 v The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” 33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but w for blasphemy, because you, being a man, x make yourself God.” 34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in y your Law, z ‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be a broken— 36 do you say of him whom b the Father consecrated and c sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because d I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37 e If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; 38 but if I do them, f even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that g the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” 39 h Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.
40 He went away again across the Jordan to the place i where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained. 41 And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but j everything that John said about this man was true.” 42 And k many believed in him there.
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