(NKJV) "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the
sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief
and a robber. {2} "But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the
sheep. {3} "To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice;
and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. {4} "And when he
brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him,
for they know his voice. {5} "Yet they will by no means follow a
stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of
strangers." {6} Jesus used this illustration, but they did not
understand the things which He spoke to them. {7} Then Jesus said to
them again, "Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
{8} "All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep
did not hear them. {9} "I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will
be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. {10} "The thief does
not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that
they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. {11} "I
am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
{12} "But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own
the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the
wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. {13} "The hireling flees
because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. {14} "I am
the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. {15} "As
the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life
for the sheep. {16} "And other sheep I have which are not of this fold;
them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be
one flock and one shepherd. {17} "Therefore My Father loves Me, because
I lay down My life that I may take it again. {18} "No one 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 command I have received from My Father."
{19} Therefore there was a division again among the Jews because of
these sayings. {20} And many of them said, "He has a demon and is mad.
Why do you listen to Him?" {21} Others said, "These are not the words of
one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?" {22} Now
it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter. {23} And
Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch. {24} Then the Jews
surrounded Him and said to Him, "How long do You keep us in doubt? If
You are the Christ, tell us plainly." {25} Jesus answered them, "I told
you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father's name,
they bear witness of Me. {26} "But you do not believe, because you are
not of My sheep, as I said to you. {27} "My sheep hear My voice, and I
know them, and they follow Me. {28} "And I give them eternal life, and
they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My
hand. {29} "My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all;
and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand. {30} "I and
My Father are one." {31} Then the Jews took up stones again to stone
Him. {32} Jesus answered them, "Many good works I
have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone
Me?" {33} The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not
stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make
Yourself God." {34} Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law,
'I said, "You are gods"'? {35} "If He called them gods, to whom the word
of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), {36} "do you say of
Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are
blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'? {37} "If I do
not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; {38} "but if I do,
though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and
believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him." {39} Therefore they
sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand. {40} And He
went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing
at first, and there He stayed. {41} Then many came to Him and said,
"John performed no sign, but all the things that John spoke about this
Man were true." {42} And many believed in Him there.
