John 10 NKJV

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and he calls his own sheep by</span> <span class="woj">name and leads them out.</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="woj">And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="woj">Yet they will by no means follow a</span> <span class="woj">stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.</span></p> <h3> Jesus the Good Shepherd</span></h3><p><span class="text John-10-7"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then Jesus said to them again, <span class="woj">“Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="woj">All who <i>ever</i> came</span> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span><span class="woj">before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="woj">I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="woj">The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have <i>it</i> more abundantly.</span></span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="woj">“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="woj">But a</span> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span><span class="woj">hireling, <i>he who is</i> not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and</span> <span class="woj">leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="woj">The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="woj">I am the good shepherd; and</span> <span class="woj">I know My <i>sheep,</i> and</span> <span class="woj">am known by My own.</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="woj">As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father;</span> <span class="woj">and I lay down My life for the sheep.</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="woj">And</span> <span class="woj">other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice;</span> <span class="woj">and there will be one flock <i>and</i> one shepherd.</span></span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="woj">“Therefore My Father</span> <span class="woj">loves Me,</span> <span class="woj">because I lay down My life that I may take it again.</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="woj">No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I</span> <span class="woj">have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.</span> <span class="woj">This command I have received from My Father.”</span></span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Therefore there was a division again among the Jews because of these sayings. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And many of them said, “He has a demon and is <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>mad. Why do you listen to Him?”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Others said, “These are not the words of one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”</span></p> <h3> The Shepherd Knows His Sheep</span></h3><p><span class="text John-10-22"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him, “How long do You keep us in <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>doubt? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, <span class="woj">“I told you, and you do not believe.</span> <span class="woj">The works that I do in My Father’s name, they</span> <span class="woj">bear witness of Me.</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="woj">But</span> <span class="woj">you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep,</span> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span><span class="woj">as I said to you.</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="woj">My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="woj">And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="woj">My Father,</span> <span class="woj">who has given <i>them</i> to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch <i>them</i> out of My Father’s hand.</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="woj">I and <i>My</i> Father are one.”</span></span></p> <h3> Renewed Efforts to Stone Jesus</span></h3><p><span class="text John-10-31"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, <span class="woj">“Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?”</span></span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, <span class="woj">“Is it not written in your law,</span> <span class="woj">‘I said, “You are gods” ’?</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="woj">If He called them gods,</span> <span class="woj">to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture</span> <span class="woj">cannot be broken),</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="woj">do you say of Him</span> <span class="woj">whom the Father sanctified and</span> <span class="woj">sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’</span> <span class="woj">because I said, ‘I am</span> <span class="woj">the Son of God’?</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="woj">If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="woj">but if I do, though you do not believe Me,</span> <span class="woj">believe the works, that you may know and</span> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span><span class="woj">believe</span> <span class="woj">that the Father <i>is</i> in Me, and I in Him.”</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.</span></p> <h3> The Believers Beyond Jordan</span></h3><p><span class="text John-10-40"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing at first, and there He stayed. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Then many came to Him and said, “John performed no sign, but all the things that John spoke about this Man were true.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/10-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>And many believed in Him there.</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-26490a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to John 10:8">John 10:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'>M omits <i>before Me</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-26494b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to John 10:12">John 10:12</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>hired man</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-26502c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to John 10:20">John 10:20</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>insane</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-26506d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to John 10:24">John 10:24</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Suspense</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-26508e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to John 10:26">John 10:26</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU omits <i>as I said to you</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-26520f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to John 10:38">John 10:38</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU <i>understand</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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