John 10:11-42 ▼

11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

12 But the hired servant, not being the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees—and the wolf snatches them and scatters them—

13 because he is a hired servant and is not himself caring about the sheep.

14 I am the good shepherd, and I know My own, and My own know Me—

15 just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father—and I lay down My life for the sheep.

16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. It is necessary for Me to bring those also, and they will hear My voice, and there will be one flock and one shepherd.

17 Because of this, the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I might take it again.

18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. This commandment I received from My Father.”

19 Again there was division among the Jews because of these words.

20 And many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is insane. Why do you? listen to Him?”

21 Others were saying, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. Is a demon able to open the eyes of the blind?”

22 Then the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter,

23 and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon.

24 Therefore the Jews encircled Him and were saying to Him, “Until when do You hold our soul in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

25 Jesus answered them, “I told you?, and you? do not believe. The works that I do in the name of My Father, these testify about Me.

26 But you? do not believe, because you? are not of My sheep.

27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

28 And I give them eternal life, and never shall they perish to the age, and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the hand of the Father.

30 I and the Father are one.”

31 Therefore the Jews took up stones again so that they might stone Him.

32 Jesus answered them, “I showed you? many good works from the Father; because of which work of them do you? stone Me?”

33 The Jews answered Him, “We do not stone You concerning a good work, but concerning blasphemy, and because You, being a man, make Yourself God.”

34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your? Law: ‘I said you? are gods’?

35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture is not able to be broken—

36 do you? say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ 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, even if you? do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you? may know and may understand that the Father is in Me and I in the Father.”

39 Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, but He went forth out of their hand.

40 And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing at first, and He remained there.

41 And many came to Him and were saying, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”

42 And many believed in Him there.