Thematic Bible

John 10:1

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.

John 10:2

But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep.

John 10:3

To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

John 10:4

When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

John 10:5

A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”

John 10:6

This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them.

John 10:7

So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

John 10:8

All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

John 10:9

I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

John 10:10

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

John 10:11

I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

John 10:12

He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

John 10:13

He flees because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep.

John 10:14

I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me,

John 10:15

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

John 10:16

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd.

John 10:17

For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.

John 10:18

No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father.”

John 10:19

A division occurred again among the Jews because of these words.

John 10:20

Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is insane. Why do you listen to Him?”

John 10:21

Others were saying, “These are not the sayings of one demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can he?”

John 10:22

At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem;

John 10:23

it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of Solomon.

John 10:24

The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

John 10:25

Jesus answered them, I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me.

John 10:26

But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep.

John 10:27

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

John 10:28

and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

John 10:29

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

John 10:30

I and the Father are one.”

John 10:31

The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him.

John 10:32

Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?”

John 10:33

The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God.”

John 10:34

Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?

John 10:35

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

John 10:36

do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

John 10:37

If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;

John 10:38

but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.”

John 10:39

Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, and He eluded their grasp.

John 10:40

And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He was staying there.

John 10:41

Many came to Him and were saying, “While John performed no sign, yet everything John said about this man was true.”

John 10:42

Many believed in Him there.