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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the person who doesn't enter the sheepfold through the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a bandit. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3It's to him the gatekeeper opens the gate, and it's his voice the sheep hear. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4When he has driven out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5They'll never follow a stranger, but will run away from him because they don't recognize the voice of strangers." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Jesus used this illustration with them, but they didn't understand what he was saying to them. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7So again Jesus said, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, I'm the gate for the sheep. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8All who came before me are thieves and bandits, but the sheep didn't listen to them. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I'm the gate. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved. He'll come in and go out and find pasture. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The thief comes only to steal, slaughter, and destroy. I've come that they may have life, and have it abundantly. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"I'm the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The hired worker, who isn't the shepherd and doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, deserts the sheep, and runs away. So the wolf snatches them and scatters them, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13because he's a hired worker, and the sheep don't matter to him. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I'm the good shepherd. I know my own and my own 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 don't belong to this fold. I must lead these also, and they'll listen to my voice. So there will be one flock and one shepherd. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it back again. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18No one is taking it from me; I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This is what my Father has commanded me." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Once again there was a division among the Jews because of what Jesus had been saying. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is insane. Why bother listening to him?" |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Others were saying, "These are not the words of a man who is demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can it?" |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Now Hanukkah was taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23and Jesus was walking around in the Temple inside the open porch of Solomon. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24So the Jewish leaders surrounded him and quizzed him, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you're the Messiah, tell us so plainly." |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Jesus answered them, "I have told you, but you don't believe it. The actions that I do in my Father's name testify on my behalf, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26but you don't believe, because you don't belong to my sheep. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28I give them eternal life, they'll never be lost, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29What my Father has given me is more important than anything, and no one can snatch it from the 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] | 31Again the Jewish leaders picked up stones to stone him to death. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Jesus replied to them, "I've shown you many good actions from my Father. For which of them are you going to stone me?" |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33The Jewish leaders answered him, "We are not going to stone you for a good action, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God!" |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Jesus replied to them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, "You are gods"'? |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35If he called those to whom a message from God came 'gods' (and the Scripture cannot be disregarded), |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36how can you say to the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world, 'You're blaspheming,' because I said, 'I'm the Son of God'? |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37If I'm not doing my Father's actions, don't believe me. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38But if I'm doing them, even though you don't believe me, believe the actions, 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] | 39Again they tried to seize him, but he slipped away from them. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40Then he went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and he remained there. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41Many people came to him and kept saying, "John never performed a sign, but everything that John said about this man is true!" |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42And many believed in Jesus there. |
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