1 ¶ Truly, truly, I tell you, The man who does not enter the sheep fold through the door but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

3 The watchman opens the door for him; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

4 And when he has led his own sheep out, he walks in front of them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

5 And they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him: for they do not recognize the voice of strangers.

6 Jesus used this illustration: but they did not understand what he was telling them.

7 So Jesus went on to say, Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the door for the sheep.

8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.

9 I am the door: if anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will go in and out, and find pasture.

10 The thief only comes to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I have come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.

12 But he who is a hireling, and not the shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and abandons the sheep, and runs away: and the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep.

13 The hireling runs, because he is a hireling, and does not care for the sheep.

14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and they know me.

15 Just as the Father knows me, even so I know the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

16 And I have other sheep, that are not of this flock: I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice; and there will be one flock, and one shepherd.

17 This is why my Father loves me, because I am laying down my life, that I might take it again.

18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down voluntarily. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it back. That is the commandment that have I received from my Father.

19 ¶ There was again a division among the Jews because of these sayings.

20 And many of them said, He has a devil, and is mad; why do you listen to him?

21 Others said, These are not the words of one who has a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?

22 ¶ Then the feast of dedication took place at Jerusalem, and it was winter.

23 And Jesus was in the temple walking in Solomon’s porch.

24 When the Jews gathered around him, and said to him, How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.

25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and you did not believe: the miracles that I do in my Father’s name, speak for me.

26 But you do not believe, because you are not my sheep, as I told you.

27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

28 And I give to them eternal life; and they will never perish, neither will any man pluck them out of my hand.

29 My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than anyone; and no one is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.

30 I and my Father are one.

31 Then the Jews again picked up stones to stone him.

32 But Jesus said to them, I have shown you many miracles from my Father; for which of those miracles do you stone me?

33 The Jews replied, We do not stone you for any miracle; but for blasphemy; because you, who are a man, claim to be God.

34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, You are gods?

35 If he called those to whom the word of God came, gods, and the scripture cannot be broken or annulled;

36 Do you say of him, whom the Father has 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 them, though you do not believe me, believe the works: so that you may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

39 ¶ Therefore they again sought to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,

40 And went back across the Jordan to the place where John had first baptized; and he stayed there.

41 And many came to him, and were saying, John did no miracle: but everything that John said about this man was true.

42 And many believed in him there.