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"Most assuredly, I tell you, one who doesn\'t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. |
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But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. |
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The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. |
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Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. |
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They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don\'t know the voice of strangers." |
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Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn\'t understand what he was telling them. |
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Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most assuredly, I tell you, I am the sheep\'s door. |
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All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn\'t listen to them. |
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I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture. |
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The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. |
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I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. |
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He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn\'t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. |
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The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn\'t care for the sheep. |
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I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I\'m known by my own; |
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even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. |
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I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. |
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Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. |
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No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father." |
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Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words. |
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Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?" |
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Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn\'t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?" |
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It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem. |
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It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon\'s porch. |
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The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly." |
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Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don\'t believe. The works that I do in my Father\'s name, these testify about me. |
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But you don\'t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. |
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My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. |
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I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. |
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My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father\'s hand. |
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I and the Father are one." |
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Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him. |
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Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?" |
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The Jews answered him, "We don\'t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God." |
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Jesus answered them, "Isn\'t it written in your law, \'I said, you are gods?\' |
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If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can\'t be broken), |
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Do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, \'You blaspheme,\' because I said, \'I am the Son of God?\' |
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If I don\'t do the works of my Father, don\'t believe me. |
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But if I do them, though you don\'t believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father." |
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They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand. |
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He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed. |
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Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true." |
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Many believed in him there. |
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