Thematic Bible
John 10:1 (show verse)
"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
John 10:2 (show verse)
The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
John 10:3 (show verse)
The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
John 10:4 (show verse)
When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.
John 10:5 (show verse)
They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger's voice."
John 10:6 (show verse)
Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
John 10:7 (show verse)
So Jesus said to them again, "I tell you the solemn truth, I am the door for the sheep.
John 10:8 (show verse)
All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
John 10:9 (show verse)
I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture.
John 10:10 (show verse)
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
John 10:11 (show verse)
"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 10:12 (show verse)
The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.
John 10:13 (show verse)
Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away.
John 10:14 (show verse)
"I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me --
John 10:15 (show verse)
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father -- and I lay down my life for the sheep.
John 10:16 (show verse)
I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.
John 10:17 (show verse)
This is why the Father loves me -- because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.
John 10:18 (show verse)
No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father."
John 10:19 (show verse)
Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people because of these words.
John 10:20 (show verse)
Many of them were saying, "He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! Why do you listen to him?"
John 10:21 (show verse)
Others said, "These are not the words of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, can it?"
John 10:22 (show verse)
Then came the feast of the Dedication in Jerusalem.
John 10:23 (show verse)
It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple area in Solomon's Portico.
John 10:24 (show verse)
The Jewish leaders surrounded him and asked, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
John 10:25 (show verse)
Jesus replied, "I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father's name testify about me.
John 10:26 (show verse)
But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.
John 10:27 (show verse)
My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
John 10:28 (show verse)
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.
John 10:29 (show verse)
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father's hand.
John 10:30 (show verse)
The Father and I are one."
John 10:31 (show verse)
The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.
John 10:32 (show verse)
Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?"
John 10:33 (show verse)
The Jewish leaders replied, "We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God."
John 10:34 (show verse)
Jesus answered, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods'?
John 10:35 (show verse)
If those people to whom the word of God came were called 'gods' (and the scripture cannot be broken),
John 10:36 (show verse)
do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?
John 10:37 (show verse)
If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.
John 10:38 (show verse)
But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me."
John 10:39 (show verse)
Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.
John 10:40 (show verse)
Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.
John 10:41 (show verse)
Many came to him and began to say, "John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!"
John 10:42 (show verse)
And many believed in Jesus there.