John 10:1-16

¹Truly, truly, I say to you, he that cometh not in by the door into the fold of the sheep, but ascendeth or goeth up by another way, is a night thief and a day thief.

²But he that entereth by the door, is the shepherd of the sheep.

³To this the porter openeth, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.

⁴And when he hath done out or hath sent out his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep pursue him; for they know his voice.

⁵But they pursue not an alien, but flee from him; for they have not known the voice of aliens.

⁶Jesus said to them this proverb; but they knew not what he spake to them.

⁷Therefore Jesus said to them again, Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

⁸As many as have come, were night thieves and day thieves, but the sheep heard not them.

⁹I am the door. If any man shall enter by me, he shall be saved; and he shall go in, and shall go out, and he shall find pastures.

¹⁰A night thief cometh not, but that he steal, slay, and lose; and I came, that they have life, and have more plenteously.

¹¹I am a good shepherd; a good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.

¹²But an hired hind, and that is not the shepherd, whose be not the sheep his own or whose the sheep be not his own, seeth a wolf coming, and he leaveth the sheep, and fleeth; and the wolf ravisheth, and disperseth, or scattereth, the sheep.

¹³And the hired hind fleeth, for he is an hired hind, and it pertaineth not to him of the sheep.

¹⁴I am a good shepherd, and I know my sheep, and my sheep know me.

¹⁵As the Father hath known me, I know the Father; and I put my life for my sheep.

¹⁶I have other sheep, that be not of this fold, and it behooveth me to bring them together, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be made one fold and one shepherd.