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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 Legacy Standard Bible</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="../">LSB</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">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/john/10.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">I Am the Good Shepherd</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="red">“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="red">But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="red">To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="red">When he brings all his own out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="red">A stranger they will never follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So Jesus said to them again, <span class="red">“Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="red">I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>have <i>it</i> abundantly.</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">“I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees—and the wolf snatches and scatters them—</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red">because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="red">I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="red">even 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="/john/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="red">And I have other sheep, which are not from this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock <i>with</i> one shepherd.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="red">For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">No one <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>takes it away from Me, but from Myself, I lay it down. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father.”</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>A division occurred again among the Jews because of these words. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is insane. Why do you listen to Him?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Others were saying, “These are not the words of someone demon-possessed. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?” <p class="hdg">I and the Father Are One</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem; <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the Portico of Solomon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, “How long <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>will You keep us in suspense? If You are the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Christ, tell us openly.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, <span class="red">“I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these bear witness of Me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="red">and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish—ever; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="red"><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>My Father, who has given <i>them</i> to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch <i>them</i> out of the Father’s hand.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="red">I and the Father are <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>one.”</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, <span class="red">“I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself God.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, <span class="red">“Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I SAID, YOU ARE GODS’?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="red">If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="red">do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="red">If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="red">but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and continue knowing that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, and He eluded their grasp. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He was staying there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And many came to Him and were saying, “While John did no sign, yet everything John said about this man was true.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>And many believed in Him there.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">10</span> Or <i>have abundance</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Some mss <i>has taken</i><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> Lit <i>do You lift up our soul</i><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> Messiah<br><span class="fnverse">29</span> One early ms <i>What My Father has given Me is greater than all</i><br><span class="fnverse">30</span> Or <i>a unity</i>, <i>one essence</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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