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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 Mace New Testament</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="../">Mace</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Mace New Testament</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/john/10-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Jesus the Good Shepherd<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I assure you, he that entreth not by the door into the sheep-fold, but climbeth up some other way, is a thief and a robber. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>but he that enters in by the door, is the pastor of the sheep. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>the porter lets him in, and the sheep know his voice: he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out to pasture. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>when he lets out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: because they know his voice. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>a stranger they will not follow, but flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Jesus talk'd to them in this figurative way: but they did not understand the meaning of his discourse.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Jesus therefore subjoin'd, I declare unto you, I am the door of the sheep-fold. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>they who have personated me, are all thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not follow them. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved; he shall go in and out, and find pasture. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>the thief comes only to steal, to kill, and destroy: but I am come that they might have life, and have it with all its advantages.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I am the true pastor: the true pastor exposes his life for the sheep. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>but the hireling, who is not the pastor, nor has the property of the sheep, seeing the wolf come, leaves the sheep, and flies away: so the wolf seizes some, and disperses the flock. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>the hireling flies, because he is an hireling, and is under no concern for the sheep. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I am the true pastor, I know my sheep, and my sheep know me, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>(as the father and I are known to one another:) and I lay down my life for them. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring; they will hear my voice; and so there shall be but one fold, and one pastor. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>therefore doth my father love me, because I lay down my life, but I shall reassume it. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>no man can take it from me, but I voluntarily lay it down: I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again, this is the order I have received from my father.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>There was another schism therefore among the Jews, occasion'd by this discourse. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>for many of them said, he is possess'd with a demon, and is mad; why do you mind him? <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>others said, this is not the language of one possess'd: can a demon give sight to the blind?<p> <A name="23"></a><p class="hdg">Jesus at the Feast of Dedication<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>At length the feast of the dedication was kept at Jerusalem, when the weather happen'd to be foul. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>as Jesus therefore was walking in the temple in Solomon's portico, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>the Jews came about him, and said, how long will you keep us in suspense? if you are the Messiah, tell us plainly. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye did not believe me: the works that I do in my father's name, they testify of me. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>but, as I said before, you do not believe; because ye are not of my sheep. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>my sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>it is I that give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any one force them out of my hand. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>my father who gave them me, is greater than all: so that no one is able to force them out of my father's hand. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>I and my father are one.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, many good works have I shewed you from my father; for which of those works would you stone me? <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>the Jews answered him, saying, it is not for any good work that we stone thee; but for blasphemy, inasmuch as you, being a man, pretend to be a God. <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, is it not written in your law, "I said ye are Gods?" <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>if the law stiles them Gods, who received the orders of God, and if the scripture is of any authortiy, <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>how can you say that I blaspheme, I whom the father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, because I said I am the son of God? <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>if I do not the works of my father, believe me not. <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>but if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know and believe that the father is in me, and I in him. <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Thereupon they again endeavour'd to seize him: but he escaped out of their hands, and retir'd beyond Jordan,<p> <A name="41"></a><p class="hdg">John’s Testimony Confirmed<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>to the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode. <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>and many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but every thing that he said concerning this man, was true. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>so that many people there believed on him.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Daniel Mace New Testament (1729)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../john/9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="John 9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="John 9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../john/11.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="John 11"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="John 11" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>