RKJNT - John - 10

10:1  Truly, truly, I say to you, He who does not enter by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs in by some other way, he is a thief and a robber.

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

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

10:4  And when he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

10:5  A stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him: for they do not know the voice of strangers.

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

10:7  Then Jesus said to them again, Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

10:8  All who came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.

10:9  I am the door: if any man enters by me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

10:10  The thief comes only to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I have come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

10:11  I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

10:12  But he who is a hireling, and not the shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf attacks them, and scatters the sheep.

10:13  The hireling flees, because he is a hireling, and does not care for the sheep.

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 the sheep.

10:16  And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold: I must bring them also, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

10:17  Therefore my Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it up again.

10:18  No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. This commandment I have received from my Father.

10:19  There was again a division among the Jews because of these words.

10:20  And many of them said, He has a devil, and is mad; why do you listen to him?

10:21  Others said, These are not the words of one who has a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?

10:22  And it was the feast of the dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter.

10:23  And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.

10:24  Then the Jews came round about him, and said to him, How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.

10:25  Jesus answered them, I told you, and you do not believe: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.

10:26  But you do not believe, because you are not 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 never perish, nor shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

10:29  My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

10:30  I and the Father are one.

10:31  Then the Jews took up stones again 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, saying, We do not stone you for a good work; but for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself out to be God.

10:34  Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, You are gods?

10:35  If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

10:36  Do you say of him, whom the Father has sanctified, and sent into the world, You blaspheme; because I said, I am the Son of God?

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

10:38  But if I do them, though you do not believe me, believe the works: that you may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.

10:39  Therefore they sought again to seize him: but he escaped from their hands,

10:40  And went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John first baptized; and there he abode.

10:41  And many came to him, and said, John did no miraculous sign: but all things that John spoke of this man were true.

10:42  And many believed in him there.