A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.

The Father and I are one.”

My sheep hear My voice, I know them, and they follow Me.

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish—ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand.

“I assure you: Anyone who doesn’t enter the sheep pen by the door but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

If He called those whom the word of God came to ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken—

I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.

But I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock, one shepherd.

This happens because he is a hired man and doesn’t care about the sheep.

Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter.

“I am the good shepherd. I know My own sheep, and they know Me,

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your scripture, I said, you are gods?

So Jesus said again, “I assure you: I am the door of the sheep.

This is why the Father loves Me, because I am laying down My life so I may take it up again.

My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

“We aren’t stoning You for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because You—being a man—make Yourself God.”

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down on My own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again. I have received this command from My Father.”

Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and He’s crazy! Why do you listen to Him?”

Again a division took place among the Jews because of these words.

Others were saying, “These aren’t the words of someone demon-possessed. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

Jesus was walking in the temple complex in Solomon’s Colonnade.

The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

They will never follow a stranger; instead they will run away from him, because they don’t recognize the voice of strangers.”

Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

The doorkeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. I lay down My life for the sheep.

The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them.

When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

But you don’t believe because you are not My sheep.

Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. Which of these works are you stoning Me for?”

“I did tell you and you don’t believe,” Jesus answered them. “The works that I do in My Father’s name testify about Me.

So He departed again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and He remained there.

do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the One the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?

Then the Jews surrounded Him and asked, “How long are You going to keep us in suspense? If You are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone Him.

But if I am doing them and you don’t believe Me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in Me and I in the Father.”

If I am not doing My Father’s works, don’t believe Me.

Then they were trying again to seize Him, yet He eluded their grasp.

Many came to Him and said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.”

And many believed in Him there.