John 10
10
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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I Am the Good Shepherd
1 “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. 2But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5#[ver. 12, 13]A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” 6This figure of speech Jesus #ch. 9:40 used with them, but they #See Mark 9:32did not understand what he was saying to them.
7So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, #ver. 9; [ch. 14:6; Eph. 2:18]I am the door of the sheep. 8All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9I am the door. If anyone enters by me, #[ch. 5:34] he will be saved and will go in and out and #Ps. 23:2; Ezek. 34:14find pasture. 10The thief comes only to steal and #[Jer. 23:1; Ezek. 34:3]kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. 11#Isa. 40:11; Ezek. 34:12, 23; 37:24; Zech. 13:7; Heb. 13:20; 1 Pet. 2:25; 5:4; [ch. 21:15-17; Ps. 23; Rev. 7:17] I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd #ver. 15, 17; ch. 15:13; 1 John 3:16; [Matt. 20:28; Mark 10:45]lays down his life for the sheep. 12He who is #[Ezek. 34:2-6] a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and #Zech. 11:17; 13:7 leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and #[Jer. 23:1-3]scatters them. 13He flees because #[1 Pet. 5:2] he is a hired hand and #Zech. 11:16cares nothing for the sheep. 14#See ver. 11 I am the good shepherd. #ver. 27; Nah. 1:7; 2 Tim. 2:19 I know my own and #ver. 4my own know me, 15#See Matt. 11:27 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and #See ver. 11I lay down my life for the sheep. 16And #Isa. 56:8 I have other sheep that are not of this fold. #[Ezek. 34:11-13; Matt. 8:11, 12; Eph. 2:13-18; 1 Pet. 2:25] I must bring them also, and #ch. 5:25; 18:37; [Acts 28:28] they will listen to my voice. So there will be #[ch. 11:52; 12:32; 17:11, 21, 22] one flock, #Ezek. 34:23; 37:24one shepherd. 17#Phil. 2:9; See ch. 5:20 For this reason the Father loves me, #Isa. 53:7, 8, 12; Heb. 2:9 because #ver. 11I lay down my life that I may take it up again. 18#[Matt. 26:53] No one takes it from me, but #[See ver. 17 above] I lay it down #[ch. 5:30] of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and #ch. 2:19; [Phil. 2:7] I have authority to take it up again. #ch. 12:49; 14:31; 15:10This charge I have received from my Father.”
19 # ch. 7:43; 9:16 There was again a division among the Jews because of these words. 20Many of them said, #See ch. 7:20 “He has a demon, and #[Mark 3:21]is insane; why listen to him?” 21Others said, “These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. #[Ex. 4:11; Ps. 146:8]; See ch. 9:33Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
I and the Father Are One
22At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23and Jesus was walking in the temple, #Acts 3:11; 5:12in the colonnade of Solomon. 24So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are #ch. 1:41 the Christ, #Matt. 26:63; Luke 22:67tell us plainly.” 25Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. #ver. 38; See ch. 5:36 The works that I do #See ch. 5:43in my Father’s name bear witness about me, 26but #[ch. 8:47]you do not believe because you are not among my sheep. 27#ver. 14, 16My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28#[1 John 2:25; 5:11] I give them eternal life, and #ch. 17:12; 18:9 they will never perish, and #ch. 6:37no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29My Father, #ch. 6:37; 17:2 who has given them to me,#10:29 Some manuscripts What my Father has given to me#[ch. 14:28] is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of #[Deut. 32:39; Isa. 49:2; 51:16]the Father’s hand. 30#ch. 17:11, 22; [ch. 5:19; 14:9]I and the Father are one.”
31 # ch. 8:59 The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. 32Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” 33The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but #See Lev. 24:16; Matt. 9:3 for blasphemy, because you, being a man, #ch. 5:18make yourself God.” 34Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in #[ch. 12:34; 15:25; 1 Cor. 14:21] your Law, #Cited from Ps. 82:6‘I said, you are gods’? 35If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be #[Matt. 5:17, 19]broken— 36do you say of him whom #[ch. 6:27] the Father consecrated and #See ch. 3:17 sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because #ch. 5:17, 18; [ver. 30]I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37#ch. 15:24If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; 38but if I do them, #ver. 25; [ch. 14:11] even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that #ch. 14:10, 11, 20; 17:21, 23; [ch. 8:29]the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” 39#ch. 7:30, 44Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.
40He went away again across the Jordan to the place #ch. 1:28where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained. 41And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but #ch. 1:7, 29-34; 3:27-30; 5:33everything that John said about this man was true.” 42And #See ch. 7:31many believed in him there.
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