¹Amen I say to you, the one not entering in through the door to the fold of the sheep but climbing up another way, he is a thief and a robber;

²However the one entering in through the door is shepherd of the sheep.

³To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep listen to his voice, and his own sheep he calls by name and leads them out.

⁴And when he may bring out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow after him, because they know his voice.

⁵However after a stranger they certainly will not follow but will flee from him, because they know not the voice of strangers.

⁶This allegory Jesus spoke to them; however they did not know what it was that He was saying to them.

⁷Therefore Jesus said again to them, "Amen I say to you that I am the door of the sheep.

⁸All as many as came before Me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not listen to them.

⁹I am the door; if anyone shall enter in through Me, he will be saved and will go in and will go out and will find pasture.

¹⁰The thief does not come except that he shall steal and shall kill and shall destroy; I myself came that they may have life and may have excessive.

¹¹I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

¹²Now the hired servant, however, 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 the sheep.

¹³Now this hired servant flees because he is a hired servant, and he himself is not concerned to him about the sheep.

¹⁴I am the good shepherd, and I know My own, and those mine know me,

¹⁵Even as the Father knows Me, I myself also know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

¹⁶And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; those also it behooves Me to bring, and they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock, with one shepherd.

¹⁷Because of this the Father loves Me, because I myself lay down my life, that I may take it again.

¹⁸No one takes it away from Me, but I myself lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority again to take it; this commandment I received from my Father."

¹⁹Therefore there was division again among the Jews on account of these words.

²⁰Now many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is insane; why do you listen to Him?"

²¹Now others were saying, "These are not the words of one demonised; surely a demon is not able to open the eyes of the blind?"

²²At the time took place the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem; and it was winter,

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

²⁴Therefore the Jews encircled Him and were saying to Him, "Until when do You hold our being in suspense? If You yourself are the Anointed One, tell us plainly."

²⁵Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you trust not. The works that I myself do in the name of my Father, these bear witness concerning Me;

²⁶But you yourselves do not trust, because you are not from among my sheep, even as I said to you.

²⁷My sheep listen to my voice, and I myself know them, and they follow Me,

²⁸And I myself give to them eternal life, and they shall certainly not perish forever, and never will anyone seize them out of my hand.

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

³⁰I myself and the Father are one."

³¹Therefore the Jews took up stones again, that they may stone Him.

³²Jesus answered them, "Many good works I have shown you from my Father; for which of these works do you stone Me?"

³³The Jews answered to Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You yourself, being a man, make yourself God."

³⁴Jesus answered them, "Surely it is written in your law that I myself said, 'You are gods'?

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

³⁶Of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, do you yourselves say that You blaspheme, because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

³⁷If I do not the works of my Father, then trust Me not;

³⁸However if I do, even if you shall not trust Me, trust in the works, so that you may know and may understand that the Father is in Me, and I myself in the Father."

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

⁴⁰And He departed again beyond Jordan to the place where John was at first immersing, and there He stayed.

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

⁴²And many trusted in Him there.