John 10

¹“Amen, amen, I say to you, he who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up by another way, he is a thief and a robber

²But he who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep

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

⁴And when he has sent out his sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice

⁵But they do not follow a stranger; instead they flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.

⁶Jesus spoke this proverb to them. But they did not understand what he was saying to them

⁷Therefore, Jesus spoke to them again: “Amen, amen, I say to you, that I am the door of the sheep

⁸All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers, and the sheep did not listen to them

⁹I am the door. If anyone has entered through me, he will be saved. And he shall go in and go out, and he shall find pastures

¹⁰The thief does not come, except so that he may steal and slaughter and destroy. I have come so that they may have life, and have it more abundantly

¹¹I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd gives his life for his sheep

¹²But the hired hand, and whoever is not a shepherd, to whom the sheep do not belong, he sees the wolf approaching, and he departs from the sheep and flees. And the wolf ravages and scatters the sheep

¹³And the hired hand flees, because he is a hired hand and there is no concern for the sheep within him

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 my sheep

¹⁶And I have other sheep that are not of this fold, and I must lead them. They shall hear my voice, and there shall be one sheepfold and 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 away from me. Instead, I lay it down of my own accord. And I have the power to lay it down. And I have the power to take it up again. This is the commandment that I have received from my Father.

¹⁹A dissension occurred again among the Jews because of these words

²⁰Then many of them were saying: “He has a demon or he is insane. Why do you listen him?

²¹Others were saying: “These are not the words of someone who has a demon. How would a demon be able to open the eyes of the blind?

²²Now it was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem, and it was winter

²³And Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon

²⁴And so the Jews surrounded him and said to him: “How long will you hold our souls in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.

²⁵Jesus answered them: “I speak to you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in the name of my Father, these offer testimony about me

²⁶But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep

²⁷My sheep hear my voice. And I know them, and they follow me

²⁸And I give them eternal life, and they shall not perish, for eternity. And no one shall seize them from my hand

²⁹What my Father gave to me is greater than all, and no one is able to seize from the hand of my Father

³⁰I and the Father are one.

³¹Therefore, the Jews took up stones, in order to stone him

³²Jesus answered them: “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?

³³The Jews answered him: “We do not stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy and because, though you are a man, you make yourself God.

³⁴Jesus responded to them: “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said: you are gods?

³⁵If he called those to whom the word of God was given gods, and Scripture cannot be broken

³⁶why do you say, about him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You have blasphemed,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?

³⁷If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe in me

³⁸But if I do them, even if you are not willing to believe in me, believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.

³⁹Therefore, they sought to apprehend him, but he escaped from their hands

⁴⁰And he went again across the Jordan, to that place where John first was baptizing. And he lodged there

⁴¹And many went out to him. And they were saying: “Indeed, John accomplished no signs

⁴²But all things whatsoever that John said about this man were true.” And many believed in him