John 10:7-21 - Jesus The Good Shepherd

⁷ Jesus therefore said unto them again, Verily, verily I tell you, that I am the door of the sheep. ⁸ All that came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not regard 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 only to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they may have life, and may have it in perfection.

¹¹ I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep. ¹² But the hireling, that is not the true shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf seizeth them, and disperseth the sheep. ¹³ Now the hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

¹⁴ I am the good shepherd, and I know my own sheep, and am known by them. ¹⁵ Even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶ And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they will hear my voice; so there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. ¹⁷ For this doth the Father love me; because I lay down my life: that I may take it again. ¹⁸ None 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 I have received from my Father.

¹⁹ There was a division therefore again among the Jews on account of these words. ²⁰ And many of them said, He is a demoniac, and is mad; why do ye hear Him? ²¹ Others said, These are not the words of a demoniac; can a demon open the eyes of the blind?