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title: John 10
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createdAt: 2024-09-04T02:39:10.071Z
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**1 **Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. **2 **But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. **3 **To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. **4 **And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. **5 **And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. **6 **This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

**7 **Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. **8 **All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. **9 **I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. **10 **The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have *it* more abundantly.

**11 **I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. **12 **But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. **13 **The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. **14 **I am the good shepherd, and know my *sheep*, and am known of mine. **15 **As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. **16 **And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, *and* one shepherd. **17 **Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. **18 **No man taketh 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 commandment have I received of my Father.

**19 **There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings. **20 **And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him? **21 **Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?

**22 **And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. **23 **And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. **24 **Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. **25 **Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. **26 **But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. **27 **My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: **28 **And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any *man* pluck them out of my hand. **29 **My Father, which gave *them* me, is greater than all; and no *man* is able to pluck *them* out of my Father's hand. **30 **I and *my* Father are one.

**31 **Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. **32 **Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? **33 **The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. **34 **Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? **35 **If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; **36 **Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? **37 **If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. **38 **But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father *is* in me, and I in him. **39 **Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,

**40 **And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode. **41 **And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true. **42 **And many believed on him there.