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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>John 10 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/10.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/10-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > John 10</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/9.htm" title="John 9">◄</a> John 10 <a href="../john/11.htm" title="John 11">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/john/10.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">I Am the Good Shepherd</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="woc">“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="woc">But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="woc">To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="woc">When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="woc">A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So Jesus again said to them, <span class="woc">“Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="woc">All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="woc">I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="woc">The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="woc">I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="woc">He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="woc">He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="woc">I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="woc">just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="woc">And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="woc">For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="woc">No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>There was again a division among the Jews because of these words. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Others said, “These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”</p> <p class="heading">I and the Father Are One</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, <span class="woc">“I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness about me,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="woc">but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="woc">My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="woc">I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="woc">My Father, who has given them to me,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts What my Father has given to me">a</a></sup></span> is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="woc">I and the Father are one.”</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, <span class="woc">“I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, <span class="woc">“Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="woc">If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="woc">do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="woc">If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me;</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="woc">but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>And many believed in him there.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">29</span> Some manuscripts <i>What my Father has given to me</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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