John 10:1-16

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;

²and he who is entering through the door is shepherd of the sheep;

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;

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;

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

¹¹'I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;

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;

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

¹⁴'I am the good shepherd, and I know my sheep, and am known by mine,

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

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.