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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2But the one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen for his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will flee from him because they do not recognize his voice.” |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7So He said to them again, “Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8All who came before Me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The man runs away because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.” |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Again there was division among the Jews because of Jesus’ message. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and insane. Why would you listen to Him?” |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21But others replied, “These are not the words of a man possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?” |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22At that time the Feast of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23and Jesus was walking in the temple courts in Solomon’s Colonnade. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24So the Jews gathered around Him and demanded, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.” |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25“I already told you,” Jesus replied, “but you did not believe. The works I do in My Father’s name testify on My behalf. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26But because you are not My sheep, you refuse to believe. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30I and the Father are one.” |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31At this, the Jews again picked up stones to stone Him. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32But Jesus responded, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone Me?” |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33“We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, declare Yourself to be God.” |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Jesus replied, “Is it not written in your Law: ‘I have said you are gods’? |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken— |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36then what about the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? How then can you accuse Me of blasphemy for stating that I am the Son of God? |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37If I am not doing the works of My Father, then do not believe Me. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38But if I am doing them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works themselves, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father.” |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had first been baptizing, and He stayed there. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41Many came to Him and said, “Although John never performed a sign, everything he said about this man was true.” |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42And many in that place believed in Jesus. |
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