The thief cometh not, but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they may have life, and that they may have it abundantly.

I and the Father are one.

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

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.

And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of my hand.

Verily, verily I say to you, he that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.

If he call them gods, to whom the word of

I am the door; if any one enter in by me, he shall be safe, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

I have also other sheep which are not of this fold: I must bring them likewise, and they will hear my voice, and there shall be one flock, and one shepherd.

The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

Now the feast of the dedication came on at Jerusalem: and it was winter.

I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine;

Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods?

Therefore Jesus said to them again, Verily, verily I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.

Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

My Father, who gave them me, is greater than all; and none shall pluck them out of my Father's hand.

The Jews answered him, We stone thee not for a good work, but for blasphemy, and because thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

No one 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.

Many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad: why hear ye him?

This commission have I received of my Father. There was again a division among the Jews, because of these sayings.

Others said, These are not the words of one that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?

And Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's portico.

But he that entereth in by the door, is the shepherd of the sheep.

Whosoever are come before me, are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not hear them.

They will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they know not the voice of strangers.

This parable spake Jesus to them; but they understood not what things they were which he spake to them.

To him the door-keeper openeth, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.

(As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father) and I lay down my life for the sheep.

But the hireling, who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: so the wolf seizeth them, and scattereth the flock.

And when he hath led forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

But, as I have told you, ye do not believe, because ye are not of my sheep.

for which of those works do ye stone me?

If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them, I have told you; yet ye do not believe: the works that I do in my Father's name, they testify of me.

And he went away again beyond Jordan, to the place where John baptized at first, and there he abode.

God came (and the scripture cannot be broken) Say ye of him whom God hath sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God?

Then came the Jews round about him, and said to him, How long dost thou keep us in suspense?

Then the Jews again took up stones to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father;

But if I do, tho' ye believe not me, believe the works; that ye may know and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

Therefore they sought again to seize him; but he escaped out of their hand.

And many came to him and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.

And many believed on him there.