1In truth I tell you, whoever does not go into the sheepfold through the door, but climbs up at some other place, that person is a thief and a robber;
2but the person who goes in through the door is shepherd to the sheep.
3For him the watchman opens the door; and the sheep listen to his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
4When he has brought them all out, he walks in front of them, and his sheep follow him, because they know his voice.
5They will not follow a stranger, but will run away from him; because they do not know a stranger's voice.”
6This was the allegory that Jesus told them, but they did not understand of what he was speaking.
7So he continued, “In truth I tell you, I am the door for the sheep.
8All who came before me were thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not listen to them.
9I am the door; he who goes in through me will be safe, and he will go in and out and find pasture.
10The thief comes only to steal, to kill, and to destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it in greater fullness.
11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep.
12The hired man who is not a shepherd, and who does not own the sheep, when he sees a wolf coming, leaves them and runs away; then the wolf seizes them, and scatters the flock.
13He does this because he is only a hired man and does not care about the sheep.
14I am the good shepherd; and I know my sheep, and my sheep know me —
15Just as the Father knows me and I know the Father — and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16I have other sheep besides, which do not belong to this fold; I must lead them also, and they will listen to my voice; and they will become one flock under one shepherd.
John 10
John 10:1-16