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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The Parable of the Shepherd</h3><p class="par"><span class="v43_10_1"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.1" class="v43_10_1">1</span>Jesus said, “I am telling you the truth: the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber. </span><span class="v43_10_2"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.2" class="v43_10_2">2</span>The man who goes in through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. </span><span class="v43_10_3"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.3" class="v43_10_3">3</span>The gatekeeper opens the gate for him; the sheep hear his voice as he calls his own sheep by name, and he leads them out. </span><span class="v43_10_4"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.4" class="v43_10_4">4</span>When he has brought them out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. </span><span class="v43_10_5"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.5" class="v43_10_5">5</span>They will not follow someone else; instead, they will run away from such a person, because they do not know his voice.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_10_6"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.6" class="v43_10_6">6</span>Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he meant.</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus the Good Shepherd</h3><p class="par"><span class="v43_10_7"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.7" class="v43_10_7">7</span>So Jesus said again, “I am telling you the truth: I am the gate for the sheep. </span><span class="v43_10_8"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.8" class="v43_10_8">8</span>All others who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. </span><span class="v43_10_9"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.9" class="v43_10_9">9</span>I am the gate. Those who come in by me will be saved; they will come in and go out and find pasture. </span><span class="v43_10_10"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.10" class="v43_10_10">10</span>The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that you might have life—life in all its fullness.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_10_11"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.11" class="v43_10_11">11</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.10.11!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “I am the good shepherd, who is willing to die for the sheep. </span><span class="v43_10_12"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.12" class="v43_10_12">12</span>When the hired man, who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees a wolf coming, he leaves the sheep and runs away; so the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them. </span><span class="v43_10_13"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.13" class="v43_10_13">13</span>The hired man runs away because he is only a hired man and does not care about the sheep. </span><span class="v43_10_14"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.14-John.10.15" class="v43_10_14">14-15</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.10.14-John.10.15!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> I am the good shepherd. As the Father knows me and I know the Father, in the same way I know my sheep and they know me. And I am willing to die for them. </span><span class="v43_10_16"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.16" class="v43_10_16">16</span>There are other sheep which belong to me that are not in this sheep pen. I must bring them, too; they will listen to my voice, and they will become<a href="#fn" id="link_John.10.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> one flock with one shepherd.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_10_17"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.17" class="v43_10_17">17</span>“The Father loves me because I am willing to give up my life, in order that I may receive it back again. </span><span class="v43_10_18"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.18" class="v43_10_18">18</span>No one takes my life away from me. I give it up of my own free will. I have the right to give it up, and I have the right to take it back. This is what my Father has commanded me to do.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_10_19"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.19" class="v43_10_19">19</span>Again there was a division among the people because of these words. </span><span class="v43_10_20"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.20" class="v43_10_20">20</span>Many of them were saying, “He has a demon! He is crazy! Why do you listen to him?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_10_21"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.21" class="v43_10_21">21</span>But others were saying, “A man with a demon could not talk like this! How could a demon give sight to blind people?”</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus Is Rejected</h3><p class="par"><span class="v43_10_22"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.22" class="v43_10_22">22</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.10.22!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> It was winter, and the Festival of the Dedication of the Temple was being celebrated in Jerusalem. </span><span class="v43_10_23"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.23" class="v43_10_23">23</span>Jesus was walking in Solomon's Porch in the Temple, </span><span class="v43_10_24"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.24" class="v43_10_24">24</span>when the people gathered around him and asked, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense? Tell us the plain truth: are you the Messiah?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_10_25"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.25" class="v43_10_25">25</span>Jesus answered, “I have already told you, but you would not believe me. The deeds I do by my Father's authority speak on my behalf; </span><span class="v43_10_26"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.26" class="v43_10_26">26</span>but you will not believe, for you are not my sheep. </span><span class="v43_10_27"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.27" class="v43_10_27">27</span>My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. </span><span class="v43_10_28"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.28" class="v43_10_28">28</span>I give them eternal life, and they shall never die. No one can snatch them away from me. </span><span class="v43_10_29"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.29" class="v43_10_29">29</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.10.29!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> What my Father has given me is greater<a href="#fn" id="link_John.10.29!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> than everything, and no one can snatch them away from the Father's care. </span><span class="v43_10_30"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.30" class="v43_10_30">30</span>The Father and I are one.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_10_31"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.31" class="v43_10_31">31</span>Then the people again picked up stones to throw at him. </span><span class="v43_10_32"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.32" class="v43_10_32">32</span>Jesus said to them, “I have done many good deeds in your presence which the Father gave me to do; for which one of these do you want to stone me?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_10_33"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.33" class="v43_10_33">33</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.10.33!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> They answered, “We do not want to stone you because of any good deeds, but because of your blasphemy! You are only a man, but you are trying to make yourself God!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_10_34"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.34" class="v43_10_34">34</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.10.34!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Jesus answered, “It is written in your own Law that God said, ‘You are gods.’ </span><span class="v43_10_35"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.35" class="v43_10_35">35</span>We know that what the scripture says is true forever; and God called those people gods, the people to whom his message was given. </span><span class="v43_10_36"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.36" class="v43_10_36">36</span>As for me, the Father chose me and sent me into the world. How, then, can you say that I blaspheme because I said that I am the Son of God? </span><span class="v43_10_37"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.37" class="v43_10_37">37</span>Do not believe me, then, if I am not doing the things my Father wants me to do. </span><span class="v43_10_38"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.38" class="v43_10_38">38</span>But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, you should at least believe my deeds, in order that you may know once and for all that the Father is in me and that I am in the Father.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_10_39"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.39" class="v43_10_39">39</span>Once more they tried to seize Jesus, but he slipped out of their hands.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_10_40"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.40" class="v43_10_40">40</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.10.40!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Jesus then went back again across the Jordan River to the place where John had been baptizing, and he stayed there. </span><span class="v43_10_41"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.41" class="v43_10_41">41</span>Many people came to him. “John performed no miracles,” they said, “but everything he said about this man was true.” </span><span class="v43_10_42"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.42" class="v43_10_42">42</span>And many people there believed in him.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.16: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">they will become; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">some manuscripts have </char><char style="fq" closed="false">there will be.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.29: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">What my Father has given me is greater; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">some manuscripts have </char><char style="fq" closed="false">My Father, who gave them to me, is greater.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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