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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 Catholic Public Domain Version</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="../">CPDV</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">Catholic Public Domain Version</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<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../psalms/23.htm">Psalm 23:1–6</a>; <a href ="../ezekiel/34.htm#11">Ezekiel 34:11–24</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Amen, amen, I say to you, he who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up by another way, he 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 who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name, and he leads them out. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And when he has sent out his 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>But they do not follow a stranger; instead they flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.” <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Jesus spoke this proverb to them. But they did not understand what he was saying to them.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore, Jesus spoke to them again: “Amen, amen, I say to you, that I am the door of the sheep. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers, and the sheep did not listen to them. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I am the door. If anyone has entered through me, he will be saved. And he shall go in and go out, and he shall find pastures. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The thief does not come, except so that he may steal and slaughter and destroy. I have come so that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd gives his life for his sheep. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But the hired hand, and whoever is not a shepherd, to whom the sheep do not belong, he sees the wolf approaching, and he departs from the sheep and flees. And the wolf ravages and scatters the sheep. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the hired hand flees, because he is a hired hand and there is no concern for the sheep within him. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I am the good Shepherd, and I know my own, and my own know me, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for my sheep. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And I have other sheep that are not of this fold, and I must lead them. They shall hear my voice, and there shall be one sheepfold and one shepherd. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For this reason, the Father loves me: because I lay down my life, so that I may take it up again. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>No one takes it away from me. Instead, I lay it down of my own accord. And I have the power to lay it down. And I have the power to take it up again. This is the commandment that 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>A dissension occurred again among the Jews because of these words. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then many of them were saying: “He has a demon or he is insane. Why do you listen him?” <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Others were saying: “These are not the words of someone who has a demon. How would a demon be able to open the eyes of 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>Now it was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem, and it was winter. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And so the Jews surrounded him and said to him: “How long will you hold our souls in suspense? If you are the Christ, 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 speak to you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in the name of my Father, these offer testimony about me. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But you do not believe, because you 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. And 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>And I give them eternal life, and they shall not perish, for eternity. And no one shall seize them from my hand. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>What my Father gave to me is greater than all, and no one is able to seize from the hand of my Father. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>I and the Father are one.”<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Therefore, the Jews took up stones, in order to stone him. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Jesus answered them: “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do 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: “We do not stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy and because, though you are a man, you make yourself God.” <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Jesus responded to them: “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said: you are gods?’ <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>If he called those to whom the word of God was given gods, and Scripture cannot be broken, <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>why do you say, about him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You have blasphemed,’ 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 do the works of my Father, do not believe in me. <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>But if I do them, even if you are not willing to believe in me, believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.” <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Therefore, they sought to apprehend him, but he escaped from their hands.<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>And he went again across the Jordan, to that place where John first was baptizing. And he lodged there. <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And many went out to him. And they were saying: “Indeed, John accomplished no signs. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>But all things whatsoever that John said about this man were true.” And many believed in him.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><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>