John 10:5-26

⁵And they will not follow a stranger, but they flee from him: for they know not the voyce of strangers.

⁶This parable spake Iesus vnto them: but they vnderstoode not what things they were which he spake vnto them.

⁷Then sayd Iesus vnto them againe, Verely, verely I say vnto you, I am that doore of the sheepe.

⁸All, that euer came before me, are theeues and robbers: but the sheepe did not heare them.

⁹I am that doore: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saued, and shall go in, and go out, and finde pasture.

¹⁰The theefe commeth not, but for to steale, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might haue life, and haue it in abundance.

¹¹I am that good shepheard: that good shepheard giueth his life for his sheepe.

¹²But an hireling, and hee which is not the shepheard, neither the sheepe are his owne, seeth the wolfe comming, and hee leaueth the sheepe, and fleeth, and the wolfe catcheth them, and scattreth the sheepe.

¹³So the hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheepe.

¹⁴I am that good shepheard, and knowe mine, and am knowen of mine.

¹⁵As the Father knoweth me, so know I the Father: and I lay downe my life for my sheepe.

¹⁶Other sheepe I haue also, which are not of this folde: them also must I bring, and they shall heare my voyce: and there shalbe one sheepefolde, and one shepheard.

¹⁷Therefore doeth my Father loue me, because I lay downe my life, that I might take it againe.

¹⁸No man taketh it from me, but I lay it downe of my selfe: I haue power to lay it downe, and haue power to take it againe: this commandement haue I receiued of my Father.

¹⁹Then there was a dissension againe among the Iewes for these sayings,

²⁰And many of them sayd, He hath a deuill, and is mad: why heare ye him?

²¹Other sayd, These are not the wordes of him that hath a deuill: can the deuill open the eyes of the blinde?

²²And it was at Hierusalem the feast of the Dedication, and it was winter.

²³And Iesus walked in the Temple, in Salomons porche.

²⁴Then came the Iewes round about him, and sayd vnto him, Howe long doest thou make vs dout? If thou be that Christ, tell vs plainely.

²⁵Iesus answered them, I tolde you, and ye beleeue not: the workes that I doe in my Fathers Name, they beare witnes of me.

²⁶But ye beleeue not: for ye are not of my sheepe, as I sayd vnto you.