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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!
Jesus the Good Shepherd
Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not in by the door to the fold of the sheep, but mounts up elsewhere, *he* is a thief and a robber;
Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not in by the door to the fold of the sheep, but mounts up elsewhere, *he* is a thief and a robber;
But the one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.
but he that enters in by the door is [the] shepherd of the sheep.
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.
To him the porter opens; and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice.
When he has put forth all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.
They won’t follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don’t know his voice.”
But they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they know not the voice of strangers.
Those who heard Jesus use this illustration didn’t understand what he meant,
This allegory spoke Jesus to them, but they did not know what it was [of] which he spoke to them.
so he explained it to them: “I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep.
Jesus therefore said again to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
All whoever came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not hear them.
I am the door: if any one enter in by me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and shall go out and shall find pasture.
The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.
The thief comes not but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I am come that they might have life, and might have [it] abundantly.
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down 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.
but he who serves for wages, and who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep.
The hired hand runs away because he’s working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep.
Now he who serves for wages flees because he serves for wages, and is not himself concerned about the sheep.
“I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me,
I am the good shepherd; and I know those that are mine, and am known of those that are mine,
just as my Father knows me and I know the Father. So I sacrifice my life for the sheep.
as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
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.
And I have other sheep which are not of this fold: those also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.
“The Father loves me because I sacrifice my life so I may take it back again.
On this account the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it again.
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.”
No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it again. I have received this commandment of my Father.
There was a division again among the Jews on account of these words;
Some said, “He’s demon possessed and out of his mind. Why listen to a man like that?”
but many of them said, He has a demon and raves; why do ye hear him?
Others said, “This doesn’t sound like a man possessed by a demon! Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
Others said, These sayings are not [those] of one that is possessed by a demon. Can a demon open blind people's eyes?
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.
The Unbelief of the Jews
Now the feast of the dedication was celebrating at Jerusalem, and it was winter.
Now the feast of the dedication was celebrating at Jerusalem, and it was winter.
He was in the Temple, walking through the section known as Solomon’s Colonnade.
And Jesus walked in the temple in the porch of Solomon.
The people surrounded him and asked, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”
The Jews therefore surrounded him, and said to him, Until when dost thou hold our soul in suspense? If thou art the Christ, say [so] to us openly.
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.
Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye do not believe. The works which I do in my Father's name, these bear witness concerning me:
But you don’t believe me because you are not my sheep.
but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep, as I told you.
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from me,
and I give them life eternal; and they shall never perish, and no one shall seize them out of my hand.
My Father who has given [them] to me is greater than all, and no one can seize out of the hand of my Father.
Once again the people picked up stones to kill him.
The Jews therefore again took stones that they might stone him.
Jesus said, “At my Father’s direction I have done many good works. For which one are you going to stone me?”
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewn you of my Father; for which work of them do ye stone me?
They replied, “We’re stoning you not for any good work, but for blasphemy! You, a mere man, claim to be God.”
The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
And you know that the Scriptures cannot be altered. So if those people who received God’s message were called ‘gods,’
If he called *them* gods to whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken),
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.
do ye say of him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am Son of God?
Don’t believe me unless I carry out my Father’s work.
If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not;
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.”
but if I do, even if ye believe not me, believe the works, that ye may know [and believe] that the Father is in me and I in him.
Once again they tried to arrest him, but he got away and left them.
They sought therefore again to take him; and he went away from out of their hand
He went beyond the Jordan River near the place where John was first baptizing and stayed there awhile.
Many across the Jordan Believe
and departed again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptising at the first: and he abode there.
and departed again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptising at the first: and he abode there.
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.”
And many came to him, and said, John did no sign; but all things which John said of this [man] were true.