John 10:1-11 ▼

1 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;

2 and he who is entering through the door is shepherd of the sheep;

3 the doorkeeper opens to this one, and the sheep hear his voice, and his own sheep he calls by name, and leads them forth;

4 and when he may put forth his own sheep, he goes on before them, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;

5 and they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they have not known the voice of strangers.”

6 Jesus spoke this allegory to them, and they did not know what the things were that He was speaking to them;

7 Jesus therefore said again to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I AM the door of the sheep;

8 all, as many as came before Me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them;

9 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.

10 The thief does not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have [it] abundantly.

11 I AM the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays His life down for the sheep;