John 10:5-26

⁵A straunger they will not folowe but will flye from him: for they knowe not the voyce of straungers.

⁶This similitude spake Iesus vnto them. But they vnderstode not what thinges they were which he spake vnto them.

⁷Then sayde Iesus vnto them agayne. Verely verely I saye vnto you: I am the dore of the shepe.

⁸All even as many as came before me are theves and robbers: but the shepe dyd not heare them.

⁹I am the dore: by me yf eny man enter in he shalbe safe and shall goo in and out and fynde pasture.

¹⁰The thefe cometh not but forto steale kyll and destroye. I am come that they myght have lyfe and have it more aboundantly.

¹¹I am the good shepeheerd. The good shepeheerd geveth his lyfe for the shepe.

¹²An heyred servaut which is not the shepeherd nether the shepe are his awne seith the wolfe comynge and leveth the shepe and flyeth and the wolfe catcheth them and scattereth the shepe.

¹³The heyred servaut flyeth because he is an heyred servaunt and careth not for the shepe.

¹⁴I am that good shepeheerd and knowe myne and am knowe of myne.

¹⁵As my father knoweth me: even so knowe I my father. And I geve my lyfe for the shepe:

¹⁶and other shepe I have which are not of this folde. Them also must I bringe that they maye heare my voyce and that ther maye be one flocke and one shepeherde.

¹⁷Therfore doth my father love me because I put my lyfe from me that I myght take it agayne.

¹⁸No man taketh it from me: but I put it awaye of my selfe. I have power to put it from me and have power to take it agayne: This commaundment have I receaved of my father.

¹⁹And ther was a dissencion agayne amonge the Iewes for these sayinges

²⁰and many of them sayd. He hath the devyll and is mad: why heare ye him?

²¹Other sayde these are not the wordes of him that hath the devyll. Can the devyll open the eyes of the blynde?

²²And it was at Ierusalem the feaste of the dedicacion and it was wynter:

²³and Iesus walked in Salomons porche.

²⁴Then came the Iewes rounde aboute him and sayde vnto him: How longe dost thou make vs doute? Yf thou be Christ tell vs playnly.

²⁵Iesus answered them: I tolde you and ye beleve not. The workes that I do in my fathers name they beare witnes of me.

²⁶But ye beleve not because ye are not of my shepe. As I sayde vnto you: