10:1 “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

10:2 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

10:3 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.

10:4 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

10:5 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”

10:6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

10:7 Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, the door of the sheep is the way of God.

10:8 All who came falsely before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

10:9 The way of God is the door. If anyone enters in by it, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and will find pasture.

10:10 The thief only comes to steal, 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 life for the sheep.

10:12 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.

10:13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care for the sheep.

10:14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

10:15 even as God knows me, and I know God. I lay down my life for the sheep.

10:16 I have other sheep which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

10:17 Therefore God loves me, because I lay down my life, that God may give it to me again.

10:18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down willingly. It is in God’s power to give it to me again. I received this commandment from God.”

10:19 Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.

10:20 Many of them said, “He has a demon and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”

10:21 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?”

10:22 It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.

10:23 It was winter, 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 will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

10:25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in God’s name, these testify about me.

10:26 But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

10:28 God gives them eternal life. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them away.

10:29 God, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of God’s hand.

10:30 I do only the will of God who sent me.”

10:31 Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

10:32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from God. For which of those works do you stone me?”

10:33 The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

10:34 Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are my servants’?

10:35 If he called them his servants, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

10:36 do you say of him whom God sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am a messenger of God’?

10:37 If I don’t do the works of God, 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 believe that God has sent me.”

10:39 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

10:40 He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and he stayed there.

10:41 Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.”

10:42 Many believed in him there.