John 10 NO HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS
10:1 ''Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
10:2 ''But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
10:3 ''To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
10:4 ''And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
10:5 ''Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.''
10:6 Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.
10:7 Then Jesus said to them again, ''Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
10:8 ''All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
10:9 ''I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
10:10 ''The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
10:11 ''I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
10:12 ''But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.
10:13 ''The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.
10:14 ''I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.
10:15 ''As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
10:16 ''And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.
10:17 ''Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.
10:18 ''No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.''
10:19 Therefore there was a division again among the Jews because of these sayings.
10:20 And many of them said, ''He has a demon and is mad. Why do you listen to Him?''
10:21 Others said, ''These are not the words of one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?''
10:22 Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter.
10:23 And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch.
10:24 Then the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him, ''How long do You keep us in doubt? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.''
10:25 Jesus answered them, ''I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father's name, they bear witness of Me.
10:26 ''But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.
10:27 ''My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
10:28 ''And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.
10:29 ''My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand.
10:30 ''I and My Father are one.''
10:31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
10:32 Jesus answered them, ''Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?''
10:33 The Jews answered Him, saying, ''For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.''
10:34 Jesus answered them, ''Is it not written in your law, 'I said, ''You are gods'?''
10:35 ''If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),
10:36 ''do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming', because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?
10:37 ''If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
10:38 ''but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.''
10:39 Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.
10:40 And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing at first, and there He stayed.
10:41 Then many came to Him and said, ''John performed no sign, but all the things that John spoke about this Man were true.''
10:42 And many believed in Him there.