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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 Smith's Literal Translation</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="../">SLT</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">Smith's Literal Translation</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>Truly, truly, I say to you, He not coming in through the door into the court-yard of the sheep, but coming up from another place, he is a thief and robber. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And he coming in 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 guard of the door opens; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And when he would put forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And a stranger they would not follow, but they will 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>This proverb spake Jesus to then: and they knew not what things they were which he spake to them.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then said Jesus again to them, Truly, truly, 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 who came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep heard them not. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I am the door: if any come in through me, he shall be saved, and he shall me in, and go 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 not, except that he steal, and sacrifice, and destroy: I came that they might have life, and have above measure.<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 lays down 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 hired one, and not being the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and he leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf plunders them, and scatters the sheep. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The hired flees, because he is hired, and no care is to him for the sheep. <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 mine, and am known by mine. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>As the Father knows me, I also know the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And I have, other sheep, which are not of this court-yard: and I must also bring them, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, and one shepherd. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it 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, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command received I of my Father.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then was a division again among the Jews for these words. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And many of them said, He has a demon, and is frenzied; why hear ye him? <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Others said, These are not the words of a demon. A demon cannot 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>And there was the festival of inauguration among the Jerusalemites, and it was winter. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then the Jews surrounded him, and said to him, How long takest thou away our soul? If thou art Christ, say to us with freedom of speech. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, I said to you, and ye believe not: the works which I do in my Father's name, these testify of me. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But ye believe not, for ye are not of my sheep, as I said to you. <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 never perish, and no one shall snatch 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 has given to me, is greater than all; and no one can snatch 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 again lifted up the Jews stones that they might 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 I shewed you from my Father; for which of these works do ye 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, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and that thou, being man, makest thyself 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 he called them gods, to whom the word of God came, and the writing cannot be loosed; <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Whom the Father consecrated, and sent into the world, say ye that thou blasphemest; 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>And if I do, though ye believe me not, believe the works: that ye might know, and believe, that the Father in me, and I in him. <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Then sought they again to take him: and he went out from their hand,<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 again he departed beyond Jordan to the place where John was first immersing; and he remained there. <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And many came to him, and said, That truly John did no sign: but all which John said of him was true. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/10-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>And many believed in him there.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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