1Then Jesus went on to say, I tell you the truth. A person must get to the sheep through the door. Anyone who climbs over the wall to get in is a bad man and steals things. He has come to steal the sheep. 2But the man who comes in through the door, he is the one who takes care of the sheep. 3The guard will open the door for him. The sheep will listen to him. He calls his own sheep by their names and leads them out. 4When all his own sheep are out of the house, he goes ahead of them. The sheep come behind him because they know his voice. 5They will not go after a stranger. They will run away from him because they do not know the voice of strangers. 6Jesus told this story to the Pharisees, but they did not understand what he was trying to tell them. 7So Jesus told them again. He said, I tell you the truth. I am the door of the sheep house. 8All those who came before me are bad people and steal things. They came to steal the sheep. But the sheep did not listen to them. 9I am the door. Anyone who comes in through me will be saved. He will go in and out as he wants to, and will have food to eat. 10The thief comes only to steal the sheep and to kill them and spoil them. I have come so that people may live and that they may enjoy life to the full. 11I am the good shepherd. I am the one who really cares for the sheep. The good shepherd is willing to die to save his sheep. 12Some people work for pay. The one who does that is not the one who really cares. The sheep do not belong to him. When he sees a bad animal coming, he will leave the sheep and run away. He will let the animal take the sheep and make the sheep run away. 13He does that because he is only working for pay and does not care what happens to the sheep. 14I am the good shepherd, the one who really cares for the sheep. I know my sheep and my sheep know me. 15So my Father knows me and I know him. I am willing to die to save the sheep. 16I have some other sheep which are not with these sheep. I must bring them also. They will listen to my voice. Then all the sheep will be together and there will be one person who cares for all of them. 17My Father loves me because I am willing to die. But when I die, I will live again. 18No one kills me. I die only because I choose to die. I have power to die and I have power to live again. This is what my Father has told me to do. 19The Jews did not all say the same thing because of what Jesus said. 20Many of them said, A bad spirit is in him. He is crazy. Why do you listen to him? 21But others said, A person who has a bad spirit in him does not say the things this man says. Can a bad spirit make blind people see? 22At that time there was a feast in Jerusalem at the temple. It was the cold time of the year. 23Jesus was walking in that part of the temple called Solomons resting place. 24The Jews came around Jesus and said, How long will you keep us wondering about this matter? If you are really the Christ, then tell us plainly. 25Then Jesus said, I have already told you and you did not believe it. My Father has given me the power to do big works. These works tell you who I am. 26And yet you do not believe because you are not my sheep. I told you this before. 27My sheep listen to me. I know them. They come to me. 28I give them life that lasts for ever. They will never die. No one will take them out of my hand. 29My Father gave the sheep to me. He is greater than anyone else. No one is able to take them out of my Fathers hand. 30My Father and I are one. 31Then the leaders of the Jews picked up stones again to kill him. 32So Jesus said to them, I have done many good things that come from my Father. For which one of those are you going to kill me? 33Then the Jewish leaders answered him, We do not kill you for doing any good thing. But you do not respect God. You are only a man, and yet you say you are God. 34Jesus answered them, In your own books it is written that God said, "You are gods." 35, fehlt/missing 36Nothing can change the words in the holy writings. It is written that God spoke to men and that he called them gods. So he called some men gods. Then why do you say I do not respect God when I say that I am the Son of God? I am the one God chose and sent into the world. 37If I am not doing my Fathers work, then do not believe me. 38But if I am doing my Fathers work, believe the work that I do, even though you do not believe me. Then you will know and you will believe that my Father is in me and I am in him. 39Because of what he said, they tried to catch Jesus again. But he got away from them. 40He went away again to the other side of the Jordan River. He went to the place where John the Baptizer was when he first baptized people. Jesus stayed there for a while. 41Many people came to him there. They said, John himself did not do any big work. But everything that John said about this man is true. 42Many people believed on Jesus there.