Jun. 3, 4
John 10
Joh 10:1 "Most
certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the
sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a
robber.
Joh 10:2 But one who
enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
Joh 10:3 The gatekeeper
opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls
his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
Joh 10:4 Whenever he
brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow
him, for they know his voice.
Joh 10:5 They will by
no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't
know the voice of strangers."
Joh 10:6 Jesus spoke
this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling
them.
Joh 10:7 Jesus
therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell you, I am
the sheep's door.
Joh 10:8 All who came
before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to
them.
Joh 10:9 I am the door.
If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go
out, and will find pasture.
Joh 10:10 The thief
only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have
life, and may have it abundantly.
Joh 10:11 I am the good
shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
Joh 10:12 He who is a
hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the
wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the
sheep, and scatters them.
Joh 10:13 The hired
hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the
sheep.
Joh 10:14 I am the good
shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own;
Joh 10:15 even as the
Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the
sheep.
Joh 10:16 I have other
sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they
will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
Joh 10:17 Therefore the
Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it
again.
Joh 10:18 No one takes
it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it
down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment
from my Father."
Joh 10:19 Therefore a
division arose again among the Jews because of these words.
Joh 10:20 Many of them
said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?"
Joh 10:21 Others said,
"These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn't
possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?"
Joh 10:22 It was the
Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.
Joh 10:23 It was
winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch.
Joh 10:24 The Jews
therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you
hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
Joh 10:25 Jesus
answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works
that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.
Joh 10:26 But you don't
believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
Joh 10:27 My sheep hear
my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Joh 10:28 I give
eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch
them out of my hand.
Joh 10:29 My Father,
who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to
snatch them out of my Father's hand.
Joh 10:30 I and the
Father are one."
Joh 10:31 Therefore
Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Joh 10:32 Jesus
answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father.
For which of those works do you stone me?"
Joh 10:33 The Jews
answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for
blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."
Joh 10:34 Jesus
answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are
gods?'
Joh 10:35 If he called
them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be
broken),
Joh 10:36 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?'
Joh 10:37 If I don't do
the works of my Father, don't believe me.
Joh 10:38 But if I do
them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may
know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."
Joh 10:39 They sought
again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.
Joh 10:40 He went away
again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at
first, and there he stayed.
Joh 10:41 Many came to
him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that
John said about this man is true."
Joh 10:42 Many believed
in him there.