1"I tell you the truth, anyone who does not go into the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber."
2"But the one who goes in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep."
3"The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out."
4"When he has brought out his own sheep, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice."
5"They will not follow a stranger. They will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."
6Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
7So Jesus spoke to them again: "I tell you the truth, I am the door of the sheep."
8"All who ever came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them."
9"I am the door. If anyone goes in through me, he will be saved. He will go in and out, and find pasture."
10"The thief comes only to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life, and have it more fully."
11"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep."
12"The hired man is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he leaves the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf catches them and scatters the sheep."
13"The hired man runs away because he is only hired, and he does not care about the sheep."
14"I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep, and my own know me."
15"As the Father knows me, so I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep."
16"I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. Then there will be one fold and one shepherd."
17"This is why my Father loves me: I lay down my life, so that I may take it up again."
18"No one takes it from me. I lay it down of my own will. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. I received this command from my Father."
19So the Jews were divided again because of these words.
20Many of them said, "He has a devil, and he is mad. Why do you listen to him?"
21Others said, "These are not the words of a man who has a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?"
22It was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem, and it was winter.
24Then the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in doubt? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
25Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you did not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me."
26"But you do not believe, because you are not my sheep, as I said to you."
27"My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me."
28"I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand."
29"My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand."
30"I and my Father are one."
31Then the Jews picked up stones again to stone him.
32Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"
33The Jews answered him, "We are not stoning you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, who are a man, make yourself God."
34Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, You are gods'?"
35"If he called them gods, the ones to whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken,"
36"then do you say to the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are speaking blasphemy,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?"
37"If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me."
38"But if I do them, then even if you do not believe me, believe the works. Then you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I am in him."
39So they tried again to seize him, but he escaped out of their hand.
40He went away again beyond the Jordan, to the place where John first baptized, and he stayed there.
41Many people came to him, and they said, "John did no miracle, but everything that John said about this man was true."
42And many believed in him there.