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. ²"But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. ³"To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. ⁴"When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. ⁵"A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers." ⁶This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them. ⁷So Jesus said to them again, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. ⁸"All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. ⁹" I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. ¹⁰"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. ¹¹" I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. 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. ¹³"He flees because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep. ¹⁴" I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me, ¹⁵even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. 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. ¹⁷"For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again. 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." ¹⁹A division occurred again among the Jews because of these words. ²⁰Many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is insane. Why do you listen to Him?" ²¹Others were saying, "These are not the sayings of one demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can he?" ²²At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem; ²³it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of Solomon. ²⁴The 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." ²⁵Jesus answered them, " I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father's name, these testify of Me. ²⁶"But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep. ²⁷"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; ²⁸and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. 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. ³⁰" I and the Father are one." ³¹The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him. ³²Jesus answered them, "I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?" ³³The 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." ³⁴Jesus answered them, "Has it not been written in your Law, ' I SAID, YOU ARE GODS'? ³⁵"If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), ³⁶do 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'? ³⁷" If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; ³⁸but 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." ³⁹Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, and He eluded their grasp. ⁴⁰And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He was staying there. ⁴¹Many came to Him and were saying, "While John performed no sign, yet everything John said about this man was true." ⁴²Many believed in Him there.