John 10:5-26

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.

¹⁷'Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it;

¹⁸no one doth take it from me, but I lay it down of myself; authority I have to lay it down, and authority I have again to take it; this command I received from my Father.'

¹⁹Therefore, again, there came a division among the Jews, because of these words,

²⁰and many of them said, 'He hath a demon, and is mad, why do ye hear him?'

²¹others said, 'These sayings are not those of a demoniac; is a demon able blind men's eyes to open?'

²²And the dedication in Jerusalem came, and it was winter,

²³and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon,

²⁴the Jews, therefore, came round about him, and said to him, 'Till when our soul dost thou hold in suspense? if thou art the Christ, tell us freely.'

²⁵Jesus answered them, 'I told you, and ye do not believe; the works that I do in the name of my Father, these testify concerning me;

²⁶but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep,