John 10:1-9 ▼

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 The one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.

3 It'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 When he has driven out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

5 They'll never follow a stranger, but will run away from him because they don't recognize the voice of strangers.|

6 Jesus used this illustration with them, but they didn't understand what he was saying to them.

7 So again Jesus said, |Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, I'm the gate for the sheep.

8 All who came before me are thieves and bandits, but the sheep didn't listen to them.

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