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The sheep know their shepherd's voice. He calls each of them by name and leads them out.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v43_10_4"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.4" class="v43_10_4">4</span>When he has led out all of his sheep, he walks in front of them, and they follow, because they know his voice. </span><span class="v43_10_5"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.5" class="v43_10_5">5</span>The sheep will not follow strangers. They don't recognize a stranger's voice, and they run away.</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 the people this story. But they did not understand what he was talking about.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Jesus Is 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>Jesus said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v43_10_7">I tell you for certain that 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>Everyone who came before me was a thief or a robber, and the sheep did not listen to any of them. </span><span class="v43_10_9"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.9" class="v43_10_9">9</span>I am the gate. All who come in through me will be saved. Through me they will come and go and find pasture.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v43_10_10"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.10" class="v43_10_10">10</span>A thief comes only to rob, kill, and destroy. I came so everyone would have life, and have it fully. </span><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, and the good shepherd gives up his life for his sheep. </span><span class="v43_10_12"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.12" class="v43_10_12">12</span>Hired workers are not like the shepherd. They don't own the sheep, and when they see a wolf coming, they run off and leave the sheep. Then the wolf attacks and scatters the flock. </span><span class="v43_10_13"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.13" class="v43_10_13">13</span>Hired workers run away because they don't care about the sheep.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v43_10_14"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.14" class="v43_10_14">14</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.10.14!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep, and they know me. </span><span class="v43_10_15"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.15" class="v43_10_15">15</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.10.15!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Just as the Father knows me, I know the Father, and I give up my life for my sheep. </span><span class="v43_10_16"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.16" class="v43_10_16">16</span>I have other sheep that are not in this sheep pen. I must also bring them together, when they hear my voice. Then there will be one flock of sheep and one shepherd.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v43_10_17"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.17" class="v43_10_17">17</span>The Father loves me, because I give up my life, so 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 from me. I give it up willingly! I have the power to give it up and the power to receive it back again, just as my Father 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>The people took sides because of what Jesus had told them. </span><span class="v43_10_20"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.20" class="v43_10_20">20</span>Many of them said, “He has a demon in him! He is crazy! Why 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 said, “How could anyone with a demon in him say these things? No one like this could give sight to a blind person!”</span></p><h3 class="s1">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> That winter, Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Temple Festival. </span><span class="v43_10_23"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.23" class="v43_10_23">23</span>One day he was walking in the part of the temple known as Solomon's Porch,<a href="#fn" id="link_John.10.23!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v43_10_24"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.24" class="v43_10_24">24</span>and the people gathered all around him. They said, “How long are you going to keep us guessing? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly!”</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:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v43_10_25">I have told you, and you refused to believe me. The things I do by my Father's authority show who I am. </span><span class="v43_10_26"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.26" class="v43_10_26">26</span>But since you are not my sheep, you don't believe me. </span><span class="v43_10_27"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.27" class="v43_10_27">27</span>My sheep know my voice, and I know them. They follow me, </span><span class="v43_10_28"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.28" class="v43_10_28">28</span>and I give them eternal life, so that they will never be lost. No one can snatch them out of my hand. </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> My Father gave them to me, and he is greater than all others.<a href="#fn" id="link_John.10.29!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> No one can snatch them from his hands, </span><span class="v43_10_30"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.30" class="v43_10_30">30</span>and I am one with the Father.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_10_31"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.31" class="v43_10_31">31</span>Once again the people picked up stones in order to kill Jesus. </span><span class="v43_10_32"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.32" class="v43_10_32">32</span>But he said, “I have shown you many good things my Father sent me to do. Which one are you going to stone me for?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_10_33"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.33" class="v43_10_33">33</span>They answered, “We are not stoning you because of any good thing you did. We are stoning you because you did a terrible thing. You are just a man, and here you are claiming to be 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 replied:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v43_10_34">In your Scriptures doesn't God say, “You are gods”? </span><span class="v43_10_35"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.35" class="v43_10_35">35</span>You can't argue with the Scriptures, and God spoke to those people and called them gods. </span><span class="v43_10_36"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.36" class="v43_10_36">36</span>So why do you accuse me of a terrible sin for saying that I am the Son of God? After all, it is the Father who prepared me for this work. He is also the one who sent me into the world. </span><span class="v43_10_37"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.37" class="v43_10_37">37</span>If I don't do as my Father does, you should not believe me. </span><span class="v43_10_38"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.38" class="v43_10_38">38</span>But if I do what my Father does, you should believe because of that, even if you don't have faith in me. Then you will know for certain that the Father is one with me, and I am one with 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>Again they wanted to arrest Jesus. But he escaped </span><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> and crossed the Jordan to the place where John had earlier been baptizing. While Jesus was 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. They were saying, “John didn't work any miracles, but everything he said about Jesus is true.” </span><span class="v43_10_42"><span class="reftext" id="John.10.42" class="v43_10_42">42</span>A lot of those people also put their faith in Jesus.</span></p></div> </div> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.23 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Solomon's Porch: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A public place with tall columns along the east side of the temple.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.29 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">he is greater than all others: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some manuscripts have “they are greater than all others.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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