John 10

¹Amen, amen I say to you, he that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up another way; he is a thief and a robber.

²But he that entereth by the door, is the Pastor of the sheep.

³To this man the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them forth.

⁴And when he hath let forth his own sheep, he goeth before them: and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

⁵But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him because they know not the voice of strangers.

⁶This proverb Jesus said to them. But they knew not what he spake to them.

⁷Jesus therefore said to them again: Amen, amen I say to you, that I am the door of the sheep.

⁸And how many soever have come, are thieves and robbers: but the sheep heard them not.

⁹I am the door. By me if any enter, he shall be saved: & he shall go in and shall go out, & shall find pastures.

¹⁰The thief cometh not but to steal and kill & destroy. I came that they may have life, & may have more aboundantly.

¹¹I am the good Pastor.

¹²The good Pastor giveth his life for his sheep. But the hireling & he that is not the Pastor, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flyeth: and the wolf raveneth, and disperseth the sheep.

¹³And the hireling flyeth because he is a hireling; and he hath no care of the sheep.

¹⁴I am the good Pastor; and I know mine, and mine know me.

¹⁵As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I yield my life for my sheep.

¹⁶And other sheep I have that are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be made one fold and one Pastor.

¹⁷Therefore the Father loveth me: because I yield my life, that I may take it again.

¹⁸No man taketh it away from me: but I yield it of myself. And I have power to yield it: and I have power to take it again. This commandment I received of my Father.

¹⁹A dissension rose again among the Jews for these words.

²⁰And many of them said: He hath a devil and is mad; why hear you him?

²¹Others said: These are not the words of one that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of blind men?

²²And the Dedication was in Jerusalem: and it was winter.

²³And Jesus walked in the temple, in Salomon's porch.

²⁴The Jews therefore compassed him round about, and said to him: How long doest thou hold our soul in suspense? if thou be Christ, tell us openly.

²⁵Jesus answered them: I speak to you; and you believe not; the works that I do in the name of my Father, they give testimony of me.

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

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

²⁸And I give them life everlasting; and they shall not perish for ever, and no man shall pluck them out of my hand.

²⁹My Father, that which he hath given me, is greater than all: and no man can pluck them out of the hand of my Father.

³⁰I and the Father are one.

³¹The Jews took up stones, to stone him.

³²Jesus answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my Father, for which of those works do you stone me?

³³The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because thou being a man, makest thyself God.

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

³⁵If he called them gods, to whom the word of God was made, and the scripture cannot be broken;

³⁶whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world, say you, That thou blasphemest, because I said I am the Son of God?

³⁷If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

³⁸But if I do, and if you will not believe me, believe the works: that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.

³⁹They sought therefore to apprehend him; and he went forth out of their hands.

⁴⁰And he went again beyond Jordan into that place where John was baptizing first; and he tarried there.

⁴¹and many came to him, and they said: That John indeed did no sign. But all things whatsoever John said of this man, were true.

⁴²And many believed in him.