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10:1  “Yes, indeed! I tell you, the person who doesn’t enter the sheep-pen through the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
10:2  But the one who goes in through the gate is the sheep’s own shepherd.
10:3  This is the one the gate-keeper admits, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep, each one by name, and leads them out.
10:4  After taking out all that are his own, he goes on ahead of them; and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.
10:5  They never follow a stranger but will run away from him, because strangers’ voices are unfamiliar to them.”
10:6  Yeshua used this indirect manner of speaking with them, but they didn’t understand what he was talking to them about.
10:7  So Yeshua said to them again, “Yes, indeed! I tell you that I am the gate for the sheep.
10:8  All those who have come before me have been thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.
10:9  I am the gate; if someone enters through me, he will be safe and will go in and out and find pasture.
10:10  The thief comes only in order to steal, kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, life in its fullest measure.
10:11  “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
10:12  The hired hand, since he isn’t a shepherd and the sheep aren’t his own, sees the wolf coming, abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf drags them off and scatters them.
10:13  The hired worker behaves like this because that’s all he is, a hired worker; so it doesn’t matter to him what happens to 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 on behalf of the sheep.
10:16  Also I have other sheep which are not from this pen; I need to bring them, and they will hear my voice; and there will 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; on the contrary, I lay it down of my own free will. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it up again. This is what my Father commanded me to do.”
10:19  Again there was a split among the Judeans because of what he said.
10:20  Many of them said, “He has a demon!” and “He’s meshugga! Why do you listen to him?”
10:21  Others said, “These are not the deeds of a man who is demonized — how can a demon open blind people’s eyes?”
10:22  Then came Hanukkah in Yerushalayim. It was winter,
10:23  and Yeshua was walking around inside the Temple area, in Shlomo’s Colonnade.
10:24  So the Judeans surrounded him and said to him, “How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us publicly!”
10:25  Yeshua answered them, “I have already told you, and you don’t trust me. The works I do in my Father’s name testify on my behalf,
10:26  but the reason you don’t trust is that you are not included among my sheep.
10:27  My sheep listen to my voice, I recognize them, they follow me,
10:28  and I give them eternal life. They will absolutely never be destroyed, and no one will snatch them from my hands.
10:29  My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; and no one can snatch them from the Father’s hands.
10:30  I and the Father are one.”
10:31  Once again the Judeans picked up rocks in order to stone him.
10:32  Yeshua answered them, “You have seen me do many good deeds that reflect the Father’s power; for which one of these deeds are you stoning me?”
10:33  The Judeans replied, “We are not stoning you for any good deed, but for blasphemy — because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God .”
10:34  Yeshua answered them, “Isn’t it written in your Torah, ‘I have said, “You people are Elohim’ ”?
10:35  If he called ‘elohim’ the people to whom the word of Elohim was addressed (and the Tanakh cannot be broken),
10:36  then are you telling the one whom the Father set apart as holy and sent into the world, ‘You are committing blasphemy,’ just because I said, ‘I am a son of Elohim’?
10:37  “If I am not doing deeds that reflect my Father’s power, don’t trust me.
10:38  But if I am, then, even if you don’t trust me, trust the deeds; so that you may understand once and for all that the Father is united with me, and I am united with the Father.”
10:39  One more time they tried to arrest him, but he slipped out of their hands.
10:40  He went off again beyond the Yarden, where Yochanan had been immersing at first, and stayed there.
10:41  Many people came to him and said, “Yochanan performed no miracles, but everything Yochanan said about this man was true.”
10:42  And many people there put their trust in him.