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10:1  “Amen, amen, I say to you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold through the gate but climbs in some other way is a thief and a bandit.
10:2  The one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the flock.
10:3  The gatekeeper opens for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
10:4  “When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.
10:5  However, they will never follow a stranger. Rather, they will run away from him, because they do not recognize the voice of strangers.”
10:6  Jesus used this parable to instruct 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, I am the gate of the sheepfold.
10:8  All who came before me were thieves and bandits, but the sheep did not listen to them.
10:9  “I am the gate. Anyone who enters through me will be saved. He will go in and out and will find pasture.
10:10  “A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in abundance.
10:11  “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
10:12  The hired hand, who is not the shepherd nor the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf approaching, and he leaves the sheep and runs away, while the wolf catches and scatters them.
10:13  He runs away because he is only a hired hand and he has no concern for the sheep.
10:14  “I am the good shepherd. 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  “I have other sheep too that do not belong to this fold. I must lead them as well, and they will hear my voice. Thus, there will only be one flock, one shepherd.
10:17  “This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.
10:18  No one takes it away from me. I lay it down of my own free will. And as I have the power to lay it down, I have the power to take it up again. This command I have received from my Father.”
10:19  Once again, these words provoked a division among the Jews.
10:20  Many of them were saying, “He is possessed and out of his mind. Why should we listen to him?”
10:21  But others said, “No one possessed by a demon could speak like this. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
10:22  At that time, the feast of the Dedication was taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter,
10:23  and Jesus was walking in the temple along the Portico of Solomon.
10:24  The Jews gathered around him and asked, “How much longer will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
10:25  Jesus replied, “I have told you, but you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness to me,
10:26  but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.
10:27  “My sheep listen to my voice. I know them, and they follow me.
10:28  I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will ever snatch them from my hand.
10:29  My Father who has given them to me is greater than all, and no one can snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
10:30  I and the Father are one.”
10:31  Once again, the Jews picked up rocks to stone him,
10:32  but Jesus said to them, “I have performed in your presence many good works from my Father. For which of these works are you going to stone me?”
10:33  The Jews answered, “We are not going to stone you for any good work you have done, but for blasphemy. Even though you are a man, you are claiming to be God.”
10:34  Jesus replied, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said: You are gods’?
10:35  If those to whom the word of God was addressed are called ‘gods’ —and Scripture cannot be set aside—
10:36  how can you say, ‘You blaspheme,’ to the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world for saying, ‘I am the Son of God’?
10:37  “If I am not performing the works of my Father, then do not believe me.
10:38  However, if I am doing them, then even if you do not believe me, at least believe my works, so that you may realize and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
10:39  They again tried to seize him, but he escaped from their clutches.
10:40  He went back across the Jordan to the place where John had first been baptizing, and he remained there.
10:41  Many people came to him, and they were saying, “John performed no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”
10:42  And many there came to believe in him.