John 10:9
New International Version
I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.

New Living Translation
Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved. They will come and go freely and will find good pastures.

English Standard Version
I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.

Berean Standard Bible
I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.

Berean Literal Bible
I am the door. If anyone enters in by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and will go out and will find pasture.

King James Bible
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

New King James Version
I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

New American Standard Bible
I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

NASB 1995
“I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

NASB 1977
“I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

Legacy Standard Bible
I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

Amplified Bible
I am the Door; anyone who enters through Me will be saved [and will live forever], and will go in and out [freely], and find pasture (spiritual security).

Christian Standard Bible
I am the gate. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.

American Standard Version
I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and go out, and shall find pasture.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“I AM THE LIVING GOD, The Gate; if anyone will enter by me, he shall live and shall go in and out and shall find the pasture.”

Contemporary English Version
I am the gate. All who come in through me will be saved. Through me they will come and go and find pasture.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved: and he shall go in, and go out, and shall find pastures.

English Revised Version
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and go out, and shall find pasture.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I am the gate. Those who enter the sheep pen through me will be saved. They will go in and out of the sheep pen and find food.

Good News Translation
I am the gate. Those who come in by me will be saved; they will come in and go out and find pasture.

International Standard Version
I'm the gate. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved. He'll come in and go out and find pasture.

Literal Standard Version
I AM the door, if anyone may come in through Me, he will be saved, and he will come in, and go out, and find pasture.

Majority Standard Bible
I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.

New American Bible
I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture.

NET Bible
I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture.

New Revised Standard Version
I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture.

New Heart English Bible
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
I am the door: by me if any man shall enter he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

Weymouth New Testament
I am the Door. If any one enters by me, he will find safety, and will go in and out and find pasture.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
I am the door, through me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and he shall come in, and go out, and find pasture.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Jesus the Good Shepherd
8All who came before Me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture. 10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.…

Cross References
Ezekiel 34:14
I will feed them in good pasture, and the lofty mountains of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in a good grazing land; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 36:38
Like the numerous flocks for sacrifices at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so the ruined cities will be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD."

John 10:1
"Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

John 10:3
The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen for his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

John 10:7
So He said to them again, "Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.

John 14:6
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.


Treasury of Scripture

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

the door.

John 10:1,7
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber…

John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Romans 5:1,2
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: …

and shall.

Psalm 23:1-6
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want…

Psalm 80:1-3
To the chief Musician upon ShoshannimEduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth…

Psalm 95:7
For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,

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John 10
1. Jesus is the door, and the good shepherd.
19. Diverse opinions of him.
23. He proves by his works that he is Jesus the Son of God;
31. escapes the Jews;
39. and goes again beyond Jordan, where many believe on him.














(9) By me if any man enter in.--He returns to the thought of the door, through which every true shepherd must himself enter the fold. The thought is parallel to that of the "strait gate" and "narrow way," in Matthew 7:13-14, and with St. Paul's thought in Romans 5:2, and Ephesians 2:18. No one can really enter the fold and become a shepherd of the flock who does not seek to do so through the character and life and death of Christ--i.e., to devote himself in entire self-sacrifice to the sheep whom he seeks to lead; to live in unfailing prayer to and communion with God, whose the sheep are; to find for himself as for them "the access through Christ Jesus by one Spirit unto the Father." We may not narrow the door to the fold, nor yet may we widen it. He is the Door. No shepherd may enter unless through Him.

He shall be saved.--The words refer primarily to the dangers without the fold from which he shall be delivered. (See the striking parallel in 1Corinthians 3:15, and Note there.) But in the wider thought they include the salvation from sin which is in this life to be realised, and is a necessary qualification for the pastor's work.

And shall go in and out, and find pasture.--The fold will ever be open to him who enters by the Door. He will have perfect freedom to enter, whenever storm or danger or night approaches. He will lead out and find pasture for his flock. In the devotion of his service, and in communion with God, he will daily have an increasing knowledge of truths new and old, and the truths which he learns he will give as food for the souls of men.

Verse 9. - I am the Door: by me - by living relation to me - if any man; i.e. either shepherd or sheep, for in this part of the interpretation they are not distinguished, and they alike need "salvation" and "pasture." By me if any man enter, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. "Salvation" here spoken of refers primarily to deliverance from dangers, protection from the ravenous wolves without the fold, and from false shepherds within. "Go in and out" is a phrase frequently used "to denote the free use of an abode by one who is at home in the house" (Deuteronomy 28:6; Deuteronomy 31:2; Acts 1:21). The believer who enters into fellowship with God, and is "saved," does not "go in and out" of that state, but can as a child share by turns the Divine repose of the home, and the high privilege of his sonship in the world. "He claims his share in the inheritance of the world, secure of his home" (Westcott).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
I
ἐγώ (egō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

am
εἰμι (eimi)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

the
(hē)
Article - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

gate.
θύρα (thyra)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2374: (a) a door, (b) met: an opportunity. Apparently a primary word; a portal or entrance.

If
ἐάν (ean)
Conjunction
Strong's 1437: If. From ei and an; a conditional particle; in case that, provided, etc.

anyone
τις (tis)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5100: Any one, some one, a certain one or thing. An enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object.

enters
εἰσέλθῃ (eiselthē)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1525: To go in, come in, enter. From eis and erchomai; to enter.

through
δι’ (di’)
Preposition
Strong's 1223: A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through.

Me,
ἐμοῦ (emou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

he will be saved.
σωθήσεται (sōthēsetai)
Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4982: To save, heal, preserve, rescue. From a primary sos; to save, i.e. Deliver or protect.

He will come in
εἰσελεύσεται (eiseleusetai)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1525: To go in, come in, enter. From eis and erchomai; to enter.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

go out
ἐξελεύσεται (exeleusetai)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1831: To go out, come out. From ek and erchomai; to issue.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

find
εὑρήσει (heurēsei)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2147: A prolonged form of a primary heuro, which heureo is used for it in all the tenses except the present and imperfect to find.

pasture.
νομὴν (nomēn)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3542: (a) pasture, pasturage, (b) met: growth, increase. Feminine from the same as nomos; pasture, i.e. feeding, or pasturage.


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