John 10:7-21 - Jesus The Good Shepherd

⁷ Then said Jesus unto them again, "Verily, verily I say unto you: that I am the door of the sheep. ⁸ All, even as many as 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 safe, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. ¹⁰ The thief cometh not but for to steal and kill, and destroy. I am come that they might have life, and have it more abundantly.

¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. ¹² An hired servant which is not the shepherd, neither the sheep are his own, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flyeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. ¹³ The hired servant flyeth because he is a hired servant, and careth not for the sheep.

¹⁴ I am that good shepherd, and know mine, and am known of mine. ¹⁵ As my father knoweth me: even so know I my father. And I give my life for the sheep, ¹⁶ and other sheep I have, which are not of this fold. Them also must I bring, that they may hear my voice. And that there may be one flock, and one shepherd. ¹⁷ Therefore doth my father love me: because I put my life from me, that I might take it again. ¹⁸ No man taketh it from me: but I put it away of myself. I have power to put it from me, and power I have to take it again. This commandment have I received of my father."

¹⁹ And there was a dissension among the Jews for these sayings, ²⁰ and many of them said, "He hath the devil, and is mad: why hear ye him?" ²¹ Others said, "These are not the words of him that hath the devil: Can the devil open the eyes of the blind?"