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¹Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not in by the door to the fold of the sheep, but mounts up elsewhere, he 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.

⁴When he has put forth all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

⁵But they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they know not the voice of strangers.

⁶This allegory spoke Jesus to them, but they did not know what it was of which he spoke to them.

⁷Jesus therefore said again to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

⁸All whoever came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not hear them.

⁹I am the door: if any one enter in by me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and shall go out and shall find pasture.

¹⁰The thief comes not but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I am come that they might have life, and might have it abundantly.

¹¹I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep:

¹²but he who serves for wages, and who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep.

¹³Now he who serves for wages flees because he serves for wages, and is not himself concerned about the sheep.

¹⁴I am the good shepherd; and I know those that are mine, and am known of those that are mine,

¹⁵as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

¹⁶And I have other sheep which are not of this fold: those also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.

¹⁷On this account the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it again.

¹⁸No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it again. I have received this commandment of my Father.

¹⁹There was a division again among the Jews on account of these words;

²⁰but many of them said, He has a demon and raves; why do ye hear him?

²¹Others said, These sayings are not those of one that is possessed by a demon. Can a demon open blind people's eyes?

²²Now the feast of the dedication was celebrating at Jerusalem, and it was winter.

²³And Jesus walked in the temple in the porch of Solomon.

²⁴The Jews therefore surrounded him, and said to him, Until when dost thou hold our soul in suspense? If thou art the Christ, say so to us openly.

²⁵Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye do not believe. The works which I do in my Father's name, these bear witness concerning me:

²⁶but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep, as I told you.

²⁷My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;

²⁸and I give them life eternal; and they shall never perish, and no one shall seize them out of my hand.

²⁹My Father who has given them to me is greater than all, and no one can seize out of the hand of my Father.

³⁰I and the Father are one.

³¹The Jews therefore again took stones that they might stone him.

³²Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewn you of my Father; for which work of them do ye stone me?

³³The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone thee not, 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 to 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 Son of God?

³⁷If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not;

³⁸but if I do, even if ye believe not me, believe the works, that ye may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in him.

³⁹They sought therefore again to take him; and he went away from out of their hand

⁴⁰and departed again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptising at the first: and he abode there.

⁴¹And many came to him, and said, John did no sign; but all things which John said of this man were true.

⁴²And many believed on him there.