John 10
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The Good Shepherd
1 “Truly I tell you, anyone who doesn’t enter the sheep pen by the gate but climbs in some other way is a thief and a robber. #
Jr 7:11; Hs 6:9; 1Th 5:2,4; 2Pt 3:10; Rv 3:3; 16:15 2The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd#Gn 4:2; Ps 23:1 of the sheep.#Mt 7:15 3The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they know his voice. 5They will never follow a stranger; instead they will run away from him, because they don’t know the voice of strangers.” 6Jesus gave them this figure of speech, but they did not understand#Mk 9:32; Lk 2:50; 9:45; 18:34; Jn 2:24; 12:16 what he was telling them.
7Jesus said again, “Truly I tell you, I am#Ex 3:14; Ps 45:8; Jn 8:24 the gate for the sheep.#Mt 7:15 8All who came before me#10:8 Other mss omit before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. 9I am the gate. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture. 10A thief comes only to steal#Eph 4:28 and kill and destroy.#Jn 6:27 I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.
11 “I am the good shepherd. #
Ps 23; Is 40:11; Ezk 34:12,23; 37:24; Zch 13:7; Jn 21:15–17; Heb 13:20; 1Pt 2:25; 5:4; Rv 7:17 The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.#Mt 20:28; Mk 10:45; 2Co 5:21; Gl 3:13; 1Jn 3:16 12The hired hand, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves them#10:12 Lit leaves the sheep and runs away when he sees a wolf#Lk 10:3 coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them. 13This happens because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care about the sheep.
14 “I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and my own know me, 15just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father.#Mt 11:27; Lk 10:22 I lay down my life#Mt 20:28 for the sheep. 16But I have other sheep#Is 56:8; Ezk 34:11–13; Mt 8:11,12; Jn 12:32; Ac 10:34–35; 1Pt 2:25 that are not from this sheep pen; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. Then there will be one flock, one shepherd.#Ezk 34:23; 37:24; Jn 11:52; 17:11,20–22; Eph 2:11–19 17This is why the Father loves me,#Jn 3:35; 5:20 because I lay down my life#1Jn 3:16 so that I may take it up again. 18No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father.”#Jn 5:19
19Again the Jews were divided#Jn 7:43; 9:16 because of these words. 20Many of them were saying, “He has a demon#Jn 7:20; 8:48; Rv 9:20; 18:2 and he’s crazy. Why do you listen to him?” 21Others were saying, “These aren’t the words of someone who is demon-possessed. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?” #Ex 4:11; Ps 146:8; Jn 9:32–33
Jesus at the Festival of Dedication
22Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter. 23Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon’s Colonnade.#Ac 3:11; 5:12 24The Jews surrounded him and asked, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense?#10:24 Lit “How long are you taking away our life? If you are the Messiah,#Mt 1:17; Eph 5:2 tell us plainly.”#10:24 Or openly, or publicly#Mt 26:63; Lk 22:67; 2Co 3:12
25 “I did tell you and you don’t believe,” Jesus answered them. “The works#Jn 5:36; 6:28–29; Rm 14:20; Heb 3:9; 2Jn 8; Rv 15:3 that I do in my Father’s name testify about me. 26But you don’t believe because you are not of my sheep.#10:26 Other mss add just as I told you#Jn 6:37; 8:47 27My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me. 28I give them eternal life,#Jn 12:25; Ac 13:48; 1Jn 2:25 and they will never perish.#Mt 10:42; Mk 9:41; Lk 21:18; Jn 3:16; 6:27,39; 17:12; 18:9; 2Co 4:9; 2Jn 8 No one will snatch#1Th 4:17 them out of my hand. 29My Father,#Mt 11:27 who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. 30I and the Father are one.”#Jn 1:15; 14:10; 17:11; 1Jn 2:24
Renewed Efforts to Stone Jesus
31Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone him.#Jn 11:8
32Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works#Jn 5:36; 15:24 from the Father. For which of these works are you stoning me?”
33“We aren’t stoning#Lv 24:16; Mt 9:3; 26:62–66; Jn 5:18; 8:59 you for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because you — being a man — make yourself God.”
34Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law,#10:34 Other mss read in the scripture I said, you are gods?#10:34Ps 82:6#Ps 82:6 35If he called those to whom the word#Lk 8:21; Jn 2:22; 18:32 of God came ‘gods’ — and the Scripture#Mt 26:54 cannot be broken — 36do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the one the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?#Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2 37If I am not doing my Father’s works,#Jn 5:36; 15:24; Heb 3:9; Rv 15:3 don’t believe me. 38But if I am doing them and you don’t believe me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand#10:38 Other mss read know and believe that the Father is in me and I in the Father.”#Jn 14:10; 1Jn 5:20 39Then they were trying again to seize him,#Jn 7:44 but he escaped their grasp.#Lk 4:30
Many beyond the Jordan Believe in Jesus
40So he departed again across the Jordan#Mk 10:1; Lk 3:3 to the place where John#Mk 1:4 had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there. 41Many came to him#Mk 1:45 and said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.” 42And many believed in him there.
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John 10
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John 10
1¶ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
2But he that enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3To him the porter opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
4And when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
5And they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.
6Jesus spoke this parable unto them, but they did not understand what it was that he spoke unto them.
7Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I AM the door of the sheep.
8All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
9I AM the door; whosoever enters in by me shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture.
10The thief comes not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy the sheep; I am come that they might have life and that they might have it in abundance.
11I AM the good shepherd; the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.
12But the hireling, who is not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches them and scatters the sheep.
13The hireling flees because he is a hireling, and the sheep do not belong to him.
14I AM the good shepherd, and know my sheep and am known of mine.
15As the Father knows me, even so I know the Father, and I lay down my soul for the sheep.
16And I have other sheep which are not of this fold; it is expedient that I bring them also, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.
17Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my soul that I might take it again.
18No man takes it 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 have received of my Father.
19¶ There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these words.
20And many of them said, He has a demon and is beside himself; why do ye hear him?
21Others said, These are not the words of him that has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?
22¶ And they celebrated the dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter.
23And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.
24Then the Jews came round about him and said unto him, Until when wilt thou hold our soul in suspense? If thou art the Christ, tell us plainly.
25Jesus answered them, I have told you, and ye do not believe; the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.
26But ye believe not because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;
28and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of my hand.
29My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
30I and my Father are one.
31Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
33The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we do not stone thee, but for blasphemy; and because thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
34Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
35If he called them gods unto whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken),
36do ye say of him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God?
37If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me.
38But if I do, though ye do not believe me, believe the works that ye may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in him.
39¶ Therefore they sought again to take him, but he escaped out of their hand
40and went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized, and there he abode.
41And many came unto him and said, John certainly did no sign, but all the things that John spoke of this man were true.
42And many believed in him there.
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