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He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>They will not follow a stranger, but they will run from him because they do not know the voice of strangers.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Jesus used this figure of speech with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>So again Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>All who came before me are thieves and bandits; but the sheep did not listen to them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away—and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for the sheep. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>No one takes<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-30761a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Again the Jews were divided because of these words. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is out of his mind. Why listen to him?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Others were saying, “These are not the words of one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Jesus Is Rejected by the Jews</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>At that time the festival of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-30767b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> tell us plainly.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>Jesus answered, “I have told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name testify to me; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>but you do not believe, because you do not belong to my sheep. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>What my Father has given me is greater than all else, and no one can snatch it out of the Father’s hand.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-30772c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>The Father and I are one.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>The Jews took up stones again to stone him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>The Jews answered, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you, but for blasphemy, because you, though only a human being, are making yourself God.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-30777d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> ‘I said, you are gods’? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>If those to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’—and the scripture cannot be annulled— </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>can you say that the one whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world is blaspheming because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-30781e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">39</span>Then they tried to arrest him again, but he escaped from their hands.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">40</span>He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">41</span>Many came to him, and they were saying, “John performed no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">42</span>And many believed in him there.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 10:18">John 10:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities read <i>has taken</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 10:24">John 10:24</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>the Christ</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 10:29">John 10:29</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities read <i>My Father who has given them to me is greater than all, and no one can snatch them out of the Father’s hand</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 10:34">John 10:34</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities read <i>in the law</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 10:38">John 10:38</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities lack <i>and understand</i>; others read <i>and believe</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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