John 10 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Parable of the Good Shepherd

Jhn 10:1“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.

Jhn 10:2

Jhn 10:2“But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep.

Jhn 10:3

Jhn 10:3“To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

Jhn 10:4

Jhn 10:4“When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

Jhn 10:5

Jhn 10:5“A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”

Jhn 10:6

Jhn 10:6This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them.

Jhn 10:7

Jhn 10:7So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

Jhn 10:8

Jhn 10:8“All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

Jhn 10:9

Jhn 10:9“I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

Jhn 10:10

Jhn 10:10“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and [fn]have it abundantly.

Jhn 10:11

Jhn 10:11“I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

Jhn 10:12

Jhn 10:12“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.

Jhn 10:13

Jhn 10:13“He flees because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep.

Jhn 10:14

Jhn 10:14“I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me,

Jhn 10:15

Jhn 10:15even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

Jhn 10:16

Jhn 10:16“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.

Jhn 10:17

Jhn 10:17“For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.

Jhn 10:18

Jhn 10:18“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.”

Jhn 10:19

Jhn 10:19A division occurred again among the Jews because of these words.

Jhn 10:20

Jhn 10:20Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is insane. Why do you listen to Him?”

Jhn 10:21

Jhn 10:21Others were saying, “These are not the sayings of one demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can he?”

Jesus Asserts His Deity

Jhn 10:22

Jhn 10:22At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem;

Jhn 10:23

Jhn 10:23it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of Solomon.

Jhn 10:24

Jhn 10:24The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, “How long [fn]will You keep us in suspense? If You are [fn]the Christ, tell us plainly.”

Jhn 10:25

Jhn 10:25Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me.

Jhn 10:26

Jhn 10:26“But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep.

Jhn 10:27

Jhn 10:27“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;

Jhn 10:28

Jhn 10:28and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

Jhn 10:29

Jhn 10:29“[fn]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.

Jhn 10:30

Jhn 10:30“I and the Father are [fn]one.”

Jhn 10:31

Jhn 10:31The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him.

Jhn 10:32

Jhn 10:32Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?”

Jhn 10:33

Jhn 10:33The 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.”

Jhn 10:34

Jhn 10:34Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I SAID, YOU ARE GODS’?

Jhn 10:35

Jhn 10:35“If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

Jhn 10:36

Jhn 10:36do 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’?

Jhn 10:37

Jhn 10:37“If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;

Jhn 10:38

Jhn 10:38but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may [fn]know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.”

Jhn 10:39

Jhn 10:39Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, and He eluded their grasp.

Jhn 10:40

Jhn 10:40And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He was staying there.

Jhn 10:41

Jhn 10:41Many came to Him and were saying, “While John performed no sign, yet everything John said about this man was true.”

Jhn 10:42

Jhn 10:42Many believed in Him there.

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NASB95 Footnotes

(10:10)

Or, have abundance

(10:24)

Literally: do You lift up our soul

(10:24)

I.e. the Messiah

(10:29)

One early ms reads What My Father has given Me is greater than all

(10:30)

Or, a unity; or one essence

(10:38)

Literally: know and continue knowing

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