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Jesus the True Shepherd
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
The Good Shepherd and His Sheep
“I tell you the truth, anyone who sneaks over the wall of a sheepfold, rather than going through the gate, must surely be a thief and a robber!
“I tell you the truth, anyone who sneaks over the wall of a sheepfold, rather than going through the gate, must surely be a thief and a robber!
But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
But the one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.
To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice.
Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”
They won’t follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don’t know his voice.”
Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.
Those who heard Jesus use this illustration didn’t understand what he meant,
Jesus the Good Shepherd
Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
so he explained it to them: “I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep.
I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep.
A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will abandon the sheep because they don’t belong to him and he isn’t their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock.
The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.
The hired hand runs away because he’s working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep.
I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.
“I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me,
As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
just as my Father knows me and I know the Father. So I sacrifice my life for the sheep.
And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.
I have other sheep, too, that are not in this sheepfold. I must bring them also. They will listen to my voice, and there will be one flock with one shepherd.
“Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.
“The Father loves me because I sacrifice my life so I may take it back again.
No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”
No one can take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what my Father has commanded.”
Therefore there was a division again among the Jews because of these sayings.
Some said, “He’s demon possessed and out of his mind. Why listen to a man like that?”
Others said, “These are not the words of one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
Others said, “This doesn’t sound like a man possessed by a demon! Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
The Shepherd Knows His Sheep
Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter.
Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter.
Jesus Claims to Be the Son of God
It was now winter, and Jesus was in Jerusalem at the time of Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication.
And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.
He was in the Temple, walking through the section known as Solomon’s Colonnade.
The people surrounded him and asked, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”
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.
Jesus replied, “I have already told you, and you don’t believe me. The proof is the work I do in my Father’s name.
But you don’t believe me because you are not my sheep.
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from me,
My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.
Renewed Efforts to Stone Jesus
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
Once again the people picked up stones to kill him.
Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?”
Jesus said, “At my Father’s direction I have done many good works. For which one are you going to stone me?”
The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.”
They replied, “We’re stoning you not for any good work, but for blasphemy! You, a mere man, claim to be God.”
Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods” ’?
If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),
And you know that the Scriptures cannot be altered. So if those people who received God’s message were called ‘gods,’
do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
why do you call it blasphemy when I say, ‘I am the Son of God’? After all, the Father set me apart and sent me into the world.
If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
Don’t believe me unless I carry out my Father’s work.
But if I do his work, believe in the evidence of the miraculous works I have done, even if you don’t believe me. Then you will know and understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.”
Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.
Once again they tried to arrest him, but he got away and left them.
The Believers Beyond Jordan
And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing at first, and there He stayed.
And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing at first, and there He stayed.
He went beyond the Jordan River near the place where John was first baptizing and stayed there awhile.
Then many came to Him and said, “John performed no sign, but all the things that John spoke about this Man were true.”
And many followed him. “John didn’t perform miraculous signs,” they remarked to one another, “but everything he said about this man has come true.”