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John 10 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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The Good Shepherd and His Sheep

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:1 - “I tell you the truth, anyone who sneaks over the wall of a sheepfold, rather than going through the gate, must surely be a thief and a robber!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:2 - But the one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:3 - The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:4 - After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:5 - They won’t follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don’t know his voice.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:6 - Those who heard Jesus use this illustration didn’t understand what he meant,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:7 - so he explained it to them: “I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:8 - All who came before me[fn] were thieves and robbers. But the true sheep did not listen to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:9 - Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved.[fn] They will come and go freely and will find good pastures.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:10 - The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:11 - “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:12 - A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will abandon the sheep because they don’t belong to him and he isn’t their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:13 - The hired hand runs away because he’s working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:14 - “I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:15 - just as my Father knows me and I know the Father. So I sacrifice my life for the sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:16 - I have other sheep, too, that are not in this sheepfold. I must bring them also. They will listen to my voice, and there will be one flock with one shepherd.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:17 - “The Father loves me because I sacrifice my life so I may take it back again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:18 - No one can take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what my Father has commanded.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:19 - When he said these things, the people[fn] were again divided in their opinions about him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:20 - Some said, “He’s demon possessed and out of his mind. Why listen to a man like that?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:21 - Others said, “This doesn’t sound like a man possessed by a demon! Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
Jesus Claims to Be the Son of God

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:22 - It was now winter, and Jesus was in Jerusalem at the time of Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:23 - He was in the Temple, walking through the section known as Solomon’s Colonnade.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:24 - The people surrounded him and asked, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:25 - Jesus replied, “I have already told you, and you don’t believe me. The proof is the work I do in my Father’s name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:26 - But you don’t believe me because you are not my sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:27 - My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:28 - I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:29 - for my Father has given them to me, and he is more powerful than anyone else.[fn] No one can snatch them from the Father’s hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:30 - The Father and I are one.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:31 - Once again the people picked up stones to kill him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:32 - Jesus said, “At my Father’s direction I have done many good works. For which one are you going to stone me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:33 - They replied, “We’re stoning you not for any good work, but for blasphemy! You, a mere man, claim to be God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:34 - Jesus replied, “It is written in your own Scriptures[fn] that God said to certain leaders of the people, ‘I say, you are gods!’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:35 - And you know that the Scriptures cannot be altered. So if those people who received God’s message were called ‘gods,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:36 - why do you call it blasphemy when I say, ‘I am the Son of God’? After all, the Father set me apart and sent me into the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:37 - Don’t believe me unless I carry out my Father’s work.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:38 - But if I do his work, believe in the evidence of the miraculous works I have done, even if you don’t believe me. Then you will know and understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:39 - Once again they tried to arrest him, but he got away and left them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:40 - He went beyond the Jordan River near the place where John was first baptizing and stayed there awhile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:41 - And many followed him. “John didn’t perform miraculous signs,” they remarked to one another, “but everything he said about this man has come true.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:42

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:42 - And many who were there believed in Jesus.
See the NLT Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NLT Footnotes
Some manuscripts do not include before me.
Or will find safety.
Greek Jewish people; also in 10:24, 31.
Other manuscripts read for what my Father has given me is more powerful than anything; still others read for regarding that which my Father has given me, he is greater than all.
Greek your own law.
Ps 82:6.
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John Chapter 10 — Additional Translations:

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