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¹Jesus said, "I am telling you the truth: the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

²The man who goes in through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.

³The gatekeeper opens the gate for him; the sheep hear his voice as he calls his own sheep by name, and he leads them out.

⁴When he has brought them out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

⁵They will not follow someone else; instead, they will run away from such a person, because they do not know his voice."

⁶Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he meant.

⁷So Jesus said again, "I am telling you the truth: I am the gate for the sheep.

⁸All others who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

⁹I am the gate. Those who come in by me will be saved; they will come in and go out and find pasture.

¹⁰The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that you might have life---life in all its fullness.

¹¹"I am the good shepherd, who is willing to die for the sheep.

¹²When the hired man, who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees a wolf coming, he leaves the sheep and runs away; so the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.

¹³The hired man runs away because he is only a hired man and does not care about the sheep.

¹⁴I am the good shepherd. As the Father knows me and I know the Father, in the same way I know my sheep and they know me. And I am willing to die for them.

¹⁶There are other sheep which belong to me that are not in this sheep pen. I must bring them, too; they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock with one shepherd.

¹⁷"The Father loves me because I am willing to give up my life, in order that I may receive it back again.

¹⁸No one takes my life away from me. I give it up of my own free will. I have the right to give it up, and I have the right to take it back. This is what my Father has commanded me to do."

¹⁹Again there was a division among the people because of these words.

²⁰Many of them were saying, "He has a demon! He is crazy! Why do you listen to him?"

²¹But others were saying, "A man with a demon could not talk like this! How could a demon give sight to blind people?"

²²It was winter, and the Festival of the Dedication of the Temple was being celebrated in Jerusalem.

²³Jesus was walking in Solomon's Porch in the Temple,

²⁴when the people gathered around him and asked, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? Tell us the plain truth: are you the Messiah?"

²⁵Jesus answered, "I have already told you, but you would not believe me. The deeds I do by my Father's authority speak on my behalf;

²⁶but you will not believe, for you are not my sheep.

²⁷My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

²⁸I give them eternal life, and they shall never die. No one can snatch them away from me.

²⁹What my Father has given me is greater than everything, and no one can snatch them away from the Father's care.

³⁰The Father and I are one."

³¹Then the people again picked up stones to throw at him.

³²Jesus said to them, "I have done many good deeds in your presence which the Father gave me to do; for which one of these do you want to stone me?"

³³They answered, "We do not want to stone you because of any good deeds, but because of your blasphemy! You are only a man, but you are trying to make yourself God!"

³⁴Jesus answered, "It is written in your own Law that God said, 'You are gods.'

³⁵We know that what the scripture says is true forever; and God called those people gods, the people to whom his message was given.

³⁶As for me, the Father chose me and sent me into the world. How, then, can you say that I blaspheme because I said that I am the Son of God?

³⁷Do not believe me, then, if I am not doing the things my Father wants me to do.

³⁸But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, you should at least believe my deeds, in order that you may know once and for all that the Father is in me and that I am in the Father."

³⁹Once more they tried to seize Jesus, but he slipped out of their hands.

⁴⁰Jesus then went back again across the Jordan River to the place where John had been baptizing, and he stayed there.

⁴¹Many people came to him. "John performed no miracles,"they said, "but everything he said about this man was true."

⁴²And many people there believed in him.