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He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers." <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own; <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn't possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?"</p> <p class="hdg">The Unbelief of the Jews</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly." <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>I and the Father are one."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God." <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?' <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken), <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?' <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father." <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.</p> <p class="hdg">Many across the Jordan Believe</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true." <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Many believed in him there.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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