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John 10 :: New English Translation (NET)

Jhn 10:1

Jhn 10:1"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

Jhn 10:2

Jhn 10:2The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

Jhn 10:3

Jhn 10:3The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

Jhn 10:4

Jhn 10:4When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

Jhn 10:5

Jhn 10:5They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger's voice."

Jhn 10:6

Jhn 10:6Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

Jhn 10:7

Jhn 10:7So Jesus said to them again, "I tell you the solemn truth, I am the door for the sheep.

Jhn 10:8

Jhn 10:8All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

Jhn 10:9

Jhn 10:9I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture.

Jhn 10:10

Jhn 10:10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may 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 10:12The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.

Jhn 10:13

Jhn 10:13Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away.

Jhn 10:14

Jhn 10:14"I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me -

Jhn 10:15

Jhn 10:15just as the Father knows me and I know the Father - and I lay down my life for the sheep.

Jhn 10:16

Jhn 10:16I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.

Jhn 10:17

Jhn 10:17This is why the Father loves me - because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

Jhn 10:18

Jhn 10:18No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father."

Jhn 10:19

Jhn 10:19Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people because of these words.

Jhn 10:20

Jhn 10:20Many of them were saying, "He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! Why do you listen to him?"

Jhn 10:21

Jhn 10:21Others said, "These are not the words of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, can it?"

Jesus Asserts His Deity

Jhn 10:22

Jhn 10:22Then came the feast of the Dedication in Jerusalem.

Jhn 10:23

Jhn 10:23It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple area in Solomon's Portico.

Jhn 10:24

Jhn 10:24The Jewish leaders surrounded him and asked, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

Jhn 10:25

Jhn 10:25Jesus replied, "I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father's name testify about me.

Jhn 10:26

Jhn 10:26But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.

Jhn 10:27

Jhn 10:27My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

Jhn 10:28

Jhn 10:28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

Jhn 10:29

Jhn 10:29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father's hand.

Jhn 10:30

Jhn 10:30The Father and I are one."

Jhn 10:31

Jhn 10:31The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.

Jhn 10:32

Jhn 10:32Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?"

Jhn 10:33

Jhn 10:33The Jewish leaders replied, "We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God."

Jhn 10:34

Jhn 10:34Jesus answered, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods'?

Jhn 10:35

Jhn 10:35If those people to whom the word of God came were called 'gods' (and the scripture cannot be broken),

Jhn 10:36

Jhn 10:36do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

Jhn 10:37

Jhn 10:37If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.

Jhn 10:38

Jhn 10:38But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me."

Jhn 10:39

Jhn 10:39Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.

Jhn 10:40

Jhn 10:40Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

Jhn 10:41

Jhn 10:41Many came to him and began to say, "John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!"

Jhn 10:42

Jhn 10:42And many believed in Jesus there.
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