68 lines
4.3 KiB
Markdown
68 lines
4.3 KiB
Markdown
The Good Shepherd
|
|
|
|
# Chapter 10
|
|
1. *"Truly I tell you, anyone who doesn't enter the sheep pen by the gate but climbs in some other way is a thief and a robber.*
|
|
2. *The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.*
|
|
3. *The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.*
|
|
4. *When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they know his voice.*
|
|
5. *They will never follow a stranger; instead they will run away from him, because they don't know the voice of strangers."*
|
|
6. Jesus gave them this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was telling them.
|
|
|
|
7. Jesus said again, *"Truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.*
|
|
8. *All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.*
|
|
9. *I am the gate. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.*
|
|
10. *A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.*
|
|
|
|
11. *"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.*
|
|
12. *The hired hand, since he is not the shepherd and doesn't own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them.*
|
|
13. *This happens because he is a hired hand and doesn't care about the sheep.*
|
|
|
|
14. *"I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and my own know me,*
|
|
15. *just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.*
|
|
16. *But I have other sheep that are not from this sheep pen; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. Then there will be one flock, one shepherd.*
|
|
17. *This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life so that I may take it up again.*
|
|
18. *No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father."*
|
|
|
|
19. Again the Jews were divided because of these words.
|
|
20. Many of them were saying, "He has a demon and he's crazy. Why do you listen to him?"
|
|
21. Others were saying, "These aren't the words of someone who is demon-possessed. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"
|
|
Jesus at the Festival of Dedication
|
|
|
|
|
|
22. Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter.
|
|
23. Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's Colonnade.
|
|
24. The Jews surrounded him and asked, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly."
|
|
|
|
25. *"I did tell you and you don't believe," Jesus answered them. "The works that I do in my Father's name testify about me.*
|
|
26. *But you don't believe because you are not of my sheep.*
|
|
27. *My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.*
|
|
28. *I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.*
|
|
29. *My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.*
|
|
30. *I and the Father are one."*
|
|
Renewed Efforts to Stone Jesus
|
|
|
|
|
|
31. Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone him.
|
|
|
|
32. Jesus replied, *"I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these works are you stoning me?"*
|
|
|
|
33. "We aren't stoning you for a good work," the Jews answered, "but for blasphemy, because you--being a man--make yourself God."
|
|
|
|
34. Jesus answered them, *"Isn't it written in your law, <b class="quote">I said, you are gods?*
|
|
35. *If he called those to whom the word of God came 'gods'--and the Scripture cannot be broken--*
|
|
36. *do you say, 'You are blaspheming' to the one the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?*
|
|
37. *If I am not doing my Father's works, don't believe me.*
|
|
38. *But if I am doing them and you don't believe me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in me and I in the Father."*
|
|
39. Then they were trying again to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.
|
|
|
|
Many beyond the Jordan Believe in Jesus
|
|
|
|
|
|
40. So he departed again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there.
|
|
41. Many came to him and said, "John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true."
|
|
42. And many believed in him there.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|