The Concordant Literal New Testament

John’s Account

Chapter 10

¹ "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, he who is not entering through the door into the fold of the sheep, but is climbing up elsewhere, that one is a thief and a robber.
² Now he who is entering through the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
³ To him the doorkeeper is opening, and the sheep are hearing his voice, and he is summoning his own sheep by name and is leading them out.
⁴ And whenever he should be ejecting all his own, he is going in front of them, and the sheep are following him, for they are acquainted with his voice.
⁵ Now an outsider will they under no circumstances be following, but they will be fleeing from him, for they are not acquainted with the voice of the outsiders."
⁶ Jesus told them this proverb, yet they know not what things they were that He spoke to them.
⁷ Jesus, then, said to them again, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you that I am the Door of the sheep.
⁸ All whoever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep do not hear them.
⁹ I am the Door. Through Me if anyone should be entering, he shall be saved, and shall be entering and coming out and will be finding pasture.
¹⁰ The thief is not coming except that he should be stealing and sacrificing and destroying. I came that they may have life eonian, and have it superabundantly.
¹¹ I am the Shepherd ideal. The ideal shepherd is laying down his soul for the sake of the sheep.
¹² Yet the hireling, not also being shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, is beholding the wolf coming, and is leaving the sheep and fleeing. And the wolf is snatching them and is scattering the sheep.
¹³ Yet the hireling is fleeing for he is a hireling and he is not caring concerning the sheep.
¹⁴ "I am the Shepherd ideal, and I know Mine and Mine know Me,
¹⁵ according as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. And My soul am I laying down for the sake of the sheep.
¹⁶ "And other sheep have I which are not of this fold. Those also I must be leading, and they will be hearing My voice, and there will be one flock, one Shepherd.
¹⁷ "Therefore the Father is loving Me, seeing that I am laying down My soul that I may be getting it again.
¹⁸ No one is taking it away from Me, but I am laying it down of Myself. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to get it again. This precept I got from My Father."
¹⁹ A schism came again among the Jews because of these words.
²⁰ Now many of them said, "A demon has he, and is mad. Why are you hearing him?"
²¹ Yet others said, "These declarations are not those of a demoniac. No demon can open the eyes of the blind!"
²² Now there came to be the Dedications in Jerusalem, and it was winter.
²³ And Jesus walked in the sanctuary in the portico of Solomon.
²⁴ The Jews, then, surround Him, and they said to Him, "Till when are you lifting our soul? If you are the Christ, tell us with boldness."
²⁵ Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you are not believing. The works which I am doing in the name of My Father, these are testifying concerning Me.
²⁶ But you are not believing, seeing that you are not of My sheep, according as I said to you.
²⁷ "My sheep are hearing My voice, and I know them, and they are following Me.
²⁸ And I am giving them life eonian, and they should by no means be perishing for the eon, and no one shall be snatching them out of My hand.
²⁹ My Father, Who has given them to Me, is greater than all, and no one is able to be snatching them out of My Father's hand.
³⁰ I and the Father, We are one."
³¹ Again, then, the Jews bear stones that they should be stoning Him.
³² Jesus answered them, "Many ideal acts I show you from My Father. Because of what act of them are you stoning Me?"
³³ The Jews answered Him, "For an ideal act we are not stoning you, but for blasphemy, and that you, being a man, are making yourself God."
³⁴ Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, that 'I say you are gods'?
³⁵ If He said those were gods, to whom the word of God came (and the scripture can not be annulled),
³⁶ are you saying to Him Whom the Father hallows and dispatches into the world that 'You are blaspheming,' seeing that I said, 'Son of God am I'?
³⁷ If I am not doing My Father's works, do not believe Me.
³⁸ Yet if I am doing them, and if ever you are not believing Me, be believing the works, that you may be knowing and believing that in Me is the Father, and I am in the Father."
³⁹ They sought, then, to arrest Him again, and He came out of their hands.
⁴⁰ And He came away again to the other side of the Jordan into the place where John was formerly baptizing, and He remains there.
⁴¹ And many came to Him, and they said that "John, indeed, does not one sign, yet all, whatever John said concerning this One was true."
⁴² And many believe in Him there.

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