CPDV - John - 10

10:1  “Amen, amen, I say to you, he who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up by another way, he is a thief and a robber.

10:2  But he who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

10:3  To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name, and he leads them out.

10:4  And when he has sent out his sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

10:5  But they do not follow a stranger; instead they flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”

10:6  Jesus spoke this proverb to them. But they did not understand what he was saying to them.

10:7  Therefore, Jesus spoke to them again: “Amen, amen, I say to you, that I am the door of the sheep.

10:8  All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers, and the sheep did not listen to them.

10:9  I am the door. If anyone has entered through me, he will be saved. And he shall go in and go out, and he shall find pastures.

10:10  The thief does not come, except so that he may steal and slaughter and destroy. I have come so that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.

10:11  I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd gives his life for his sheep.

10:12  But the hired hand, and whoever is not a shepherd, to whom the sheep do not belong, he sees the wolf approaching, and he departs from the sheep and flees. And the wolf ravages and scatters the sheep.

10:13  And the hired hand flees, because he is a hired hand and there is no concern for the sheep within him.

10:14  I am the good Shepherd, and I know my own, and my own know me,

10:15  just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for my sheep.

10:16  And I have other sheep that are not of this fold, and I must lead them. They shall hear my voice, and there shall be one sheepfold and one shepherd.

10:17  For this reason, the Father loves me: because I lay down my life, so that I may take it up again.

10:18  No one takes it away from me. Instead, I lay it down of my own accord. And I have the power to lay it down. And I have the power to take it up again. This is the commandment that I have received from my Father.”

10:19  A dissension occurred again among the Jews because of these words.

10:20  Then many of them were saying: “He has a demon or he is insane. Why do you listen him?”

10:21  Others were saying: “These are not the words of someone who has a demon. How would a demon be able to open the eyes of the blind?”

10:22  Now it was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem, and it was winter.

10:23  And Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon.

10:24  And so the Jews surrounded him and said to him: “How long will you hold our souls in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

10:25  Jesus answered them: “I speak to you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in the name of my Father, these offer testimony about me.

10:26  But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.

10:27  My sheep hear my voice. And I know them, and they follow me.

10:28  And I give them eternal life, and they shall not perish, for eternity. And no one shall seize them from my hand.

10:29  What my Father gave to me is greater than all, and no one is able to seize from the hand of my Father.

10:30  I and the Father are one.”

10:31  Therefore, the Jews took up stones, in order to stone him.

10:32  Jesus answered them: “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”

10:33  The Jews answered him: “We do not stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy and because, though you are a man, you make yourself God.”

10:34  Jesus responded to them: “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said: you are gods?’

10:35  If he called those to whom the word of God was given gods, and Scripture cannot be broken,

10:36  why do you say, about him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You have blasphemed,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’

10:37  If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe in me.

10:38  But if I do them, even if you are not willing to believe in me, believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.”

10:39  Therefore, they sought to apprehend him, but he escaped from their hands.

10:40  And he went again across the Jordan, to that place where John first was baptizing. And he lodged there.

10:41  And many went out to him. And they were saying: “Indeed, John accomplished no signs.

10:42  But all things whatsoever that John said about this man were true.” And many believed in him.