10:1  '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.

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

10:3  To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

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

10:5  Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”

10:6  Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.

10:7  Then Jesus said to them again, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

10:8  All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

10:9  I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

10:10  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.

10:11  “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.

10:12  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.

10:13  The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.

10:14  I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.

10:15  As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

10:16  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.

10:17  “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.

10:18  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.”

10:19  Therefore there was a division again among the Jews because of these sayings.

10:20  And many of them said, “He has a demon and is mad. Why do you listen to Him?”

10:21  Others said, “These are not the words of one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

10:22  Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter.

10:23  And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.

10:24  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.'

10:25  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.

10:26  But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.

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

10:28  And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.

10:29  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.

10:30  I and My Father are one.'

10:31  Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.

10:32  Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?”

10:33  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.”

10:34  Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods”’?

10:35  If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

10:36  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’?

10:37  If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;

10:38  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.”

10:39  Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.

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

10:41  Then many came to Him and said, “John performed no sign, but all the things that John spoke about this Man were true.”

10:42  And many believed in Him there.