Gospel According To John

Gospel According to John (MLV)

John 10)

^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 another-way, that man is a thief and a robber.^10:2 But he who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.^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.^10:4 When he has put out all his own, he goes before them and the sheep follow him: because they know his voice.^10:5 And they will not follow another man, but will flee from him: because they do not know the voice of other men.^10:6 This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them: but they did not understand what it was that he spoke to them.

^10:7 Therefore Jesus said to them again, Truly, truly, I say to you*, I am the door of the sheep.^10:8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.^10:9 I am the door; if anyone enters in through me, he will be saved and will go in and go out and will find pasture.^10:10 The thief does not come, except that he may steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and may have it abundantly.^10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life on behalf of the sheep.^10:12 He who is a hired servant and not a shepherd, whose sheep are not his own, beholds the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep.^10:13 Now the hired servant flees because he is a hired servant and he himself does not care about the sheep.^10:14 I am the good shepherd; and I know my own and my own know me,^10:15 just-as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life on behalf of the sheep.^10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this flock: those also I must bring and they will hear my voice and there will be one flock, one shepherd.^10:17 Because of this, the Father loves* me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.^10:18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down out of myself. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.

^10:19 Then there arose a division again among the Jews because of these words.^10:20 And many of them said, He has a demon and is mad; why do you* hear him?^10:21 Others said, These are not the sayings of one possessed with a demon. A demon is not able to open the eyes of the blind, is it?

^10:22 And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem.^10:23 It was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch.^10:24 Therefore the Jews surrounded him and said to him, How long do you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.

^10:25 Jesus answered them, I told you* and you* do not believe: the works that I do in my Father's name, these testify concerning me.^10:26 But you* do not believe, for* you* are not from my sheep just-as I said to you*.^10:27 My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me:^10:28 and I give to them eternal life; and they will never perish and no one will snatch them out of my hand.^10:29 My Father, who has given them to me, he is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.^10:30 I and the Father are one.^10:31 The Jews took up stones again to stone him.^10:32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you* from the Father; because of which of those works do you* stone me?

^10:33 The Jews answered him, We do not stone you concerning a good work, but concerning blasphemy; and because you being a man, make yourself God.

^10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your* law, I said, You* are gods?

^10:35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken),^10:36 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?^10:37 If I do not the works of my Father, then do not believe me.^10:38 But if I do them, though you* do not believe me, believe the works: that you* may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in the Father.^10:39 They sought again to take him and he went forth out of their hand.

^10:40 And he went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was at the first immersing*; and there be abode.^10:41 And many came to him and they said, John indeed did no sign: but all things whatever John spoke about this man were true.^10:42 And many believed in him there.