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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 NLT</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="../">NLT</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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/john/10.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The Good Shepherd and His Sheep</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="red">“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!</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="red">But the one who enters through the gate 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="red">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.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="red">After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="red">They won’t follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don’t know his voice.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Those who heard Jesus use this illustration didn’t understand what he meant, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>so he explained it to them: <span class="red">“I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">All who came before me<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> were thieves and robbers. But the true 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="red">Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> They will come and go freely and will find good pastures.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices 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="red">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.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red">The hired hand runs away because he’s working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep.</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="red">“I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="red">just as my Father knows me and I know the Father. So I sacrifice 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="red">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.</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="red">“The Father loves me because I sacrifice my life so I may take it back again.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">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.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>When he said these things, the people<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> were again divided in their opinions about him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Some said, “He’s demon possessed and out of his mind. Why listen to a man like that?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Others said, “This doesn’t sound like a man possessed by a demon! Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”</p><p class="hdg">Jesus Claims to Be the Son of God</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>It was now winter, and Jesus was in Jerusalem at the time of Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He was in the Temple, walking through the section known as Solomon’s Colonnade. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The people surrounded him and asked, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Jesus replied, <span class="red">“I have already told you, and you don’t believe me. The proof is the work I do in my Father’s name.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">But you don’t believe me because you are not my sheep.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">My sheep listen to my voice; 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="red">I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from me,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="red">for my Father has given them to me, and he is more powerful than anyone else.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> No one can snatch them from the Father’s hand.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="red">The Father and I are one.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Once again the people picked up stones to kill him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Jesus said, <span class="red">“At my Father’s direction I have done many good works. For which one are you going to stone me?”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>They replied, “We’re stoning you not for any good work, but for blasphemy! You, a mere man, claim to be God.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Jesus replied, <span class="red">“It is written in your own Scriptures<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> that God said to certain leaders of the people, ‘I say, you are gods!’<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="red">And you know that the Scriptures cannot be altered. So if those people who received God’s message were called ‘gods,’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="red">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.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="red">Don’t believe me unless I carry out my Father’s work.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="red">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.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Once again they tried to arrest him, but he got away and left them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>He went beyond the Jordan River near the place where John was first baptizing and stayed there awhile. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>And many who were there believed in Jesus.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:8 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not include </span><span class="it">before me.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">will find safety.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:19 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">Jewish people;</span><span class="ft"> also in 10:24, 31.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:29 </span><span class="ft">Other manuscripts read </span><span class="it">for what my Father has given me is more powerful than anything;</span><span class="ft"> still others read </span><span class="it">for regarding that which my Father has given me, he is greater than all.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:34a </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">your own law.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:34b </span><span class="ft">Ps 82:6.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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