John 10 (NET)

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John 10:1¹“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:2²The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:3³The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:4⁴When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:5⁵They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger’s voice.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:6⁶Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:7⁷So Jesus said again, “I tell you the solemn truth, I am the door for the sheep.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:8⁸All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:9⁹I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:10¹⁰The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:11¹¹“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:12¹²The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:13¹³Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:14¹⁴“I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me—Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:15¹⁵just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:16¹⁶I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:17¹⁷This is why the Father loves me —because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:18¹⁸No one takes it away from me, but 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 commandment I received from my Father.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:19¹⁹Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people because of these words.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:20²⁰Many of them were saying, “He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! Why do you listen to him?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:21²¹Others said, “These are not the words of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, can it?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:22²²Then came the feast of the Dedication in Jerusalem.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:23²³It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple area in Solomon’s Portico.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:24²⁴The Jewish leaders surrounded him and asked, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:25²⁵Jesus replied, “I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:26²⁶But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:27²⁷My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:28²⁸I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:29²⁹My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:30³⁰The Father and I are one.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:31³¹The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:32³²Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:33³³The Jewish leaders replied, “We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:34³⁴Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods ’?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:35³⁵If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ (and the scripture cannot be broken),Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:36³⁶do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:37³⁷If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:38³⁸But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:39³⁹Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:40⁴⁰Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:41⁴¹Many came to him and began to say, “John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 10:42⁴²And many believed in Jesus there.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

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