10John 10

1`Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;Select John 10:1

2and he who is entering through the door is shepherd of the sheep;Select John 10:2

3to this one the doorkeeper doth open, and the sheep hear his voice, and his own sheep he doth call by name, and doth lead them forth;Select John 10:3

4and when his own sheep he may put forth, before them he goeth on, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;Select John 10:4

5and a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, because they have not known the voice of strangers.'Select John 10:5

6This similitude spake Jesus to them, and they knew not what the things were that he was speaking to them;Select John 10:6

7Jesus said therefore again to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you--I am the door of the sheep;Select John 10:7

8all, as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them;Select John 10:8

9I am the door, through me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and he shall come in, and go out, and find pasture.Select John 10:9

10`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.Select John 10:10

11`I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;Select John 10:11

12and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep;Select John 10:12

13and the hireling doth flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep.Select John 10:13

14`I am the good shepherd, and I know my sheep , and am known by mine,Select John 10:14

15according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,Select John 10:15

16and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock--one shepherd.Select John 10:16

17`Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it;Select John 10:17

18no one doth take it from me, but I lay it down of myself; authority I have to lay it down, and authority I have again to take it; this command I received from my Father.'Select John 10:18

19Therefore, again, there came a division among the Jews, because of these words,Select John 10:19

20and many of them said, `He hath a demon, and is mad, why do ye hear him?'Select John 10:20

21others said, `These sayings are not those of a demoniac; is a demon able blind men's eyes to open?'Select John 10:21

22And the dedication in Jerusalem came, and it was winter,Select John 10:22

23and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon,Select John 10:23

24the Jews, therefore, came round about him, and said to him, `Till when our soul dost thou hold in suspense? if thou art the Christ, tell us freely.'Select John 10:24

25Jesus answered them, `I told you, and ye do not believe; the works that I do in the name of my Father, these testify concerning me;Select John 10:25

26but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep,Select John 10:26

27according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,Select John 10:27

28and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish--to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand;Select John 10:28

29my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father;Select John 10:29

30I and the Father are one.'Select John 10:30

31Therefore, again, did the Jews take up stones that they may stone him;Select John 10:31

32Jesus answered them, `Many good works did I shew you from my Father; because of which work of them do ye stone me?'Select John 10:32

33The Jews answered him, saying, `For a good work we do not stone thee, but for evil speaking, and because thou, being a man, dost make thyself God.'Select John 10:33

34Jesus answered them, `Is it not having been written in your law: I said, ye are gods?Select John 10:34

35if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)Select John 10:35

36of him whom the Father did sanctify, and send to the world, do ye say--Thou speakest evil, because I said, Son of God I am?Select John 10:36

37if I do not the works of my Father, do not believe me;Select John 10:37

38and if I do, even if me ye may not believe, the works believe, that ye may know and may believe that in me is the Father, and I in Him.'Select John 10:38

39Therefore were they seeking again to seize him, and he went forth out of their hand,Select John 10:39

40and went away again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John was at first baptizing, and remained there,Select John 10:40

41and many came unto him, and said--`John, indeed, did no sign, and all things, as many as John said about this one were true;'Select John 10:41

42and many did believe in him there.Select John 10:42