1Most assuredly, I say to you, he who enters not by the gate into the sheepfold, but climbs over the fence, is a thief and a robber. 2The shepherd always enters by the gate. 3To him, the porter opens, and the sheep obey his voice. His own sheep he calls by name, and leads out. 4And having put out his sheep, he walks before them, and they follow him; because they know his voice. 5They will not follow a stranger, but flee from him; because they know not the voice of strangers. 6Jesus addressed this similitude to them, but they did not comprehend what he said. 7He therefore added, Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the gate of the fold. 8All who preceded me were thieves and robbers; but the sheep obeyed them not. 9I am the gate: such as enter by me shall be safe: they shall go in and out, and find pasture. 10The thief comes in only to steal, to slay, and to destroy. I am come that they may have life, and have it abundantly. 11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for his sheep. 12The hireling, who is not the shepherd, and to whom the sheep do not belong, when he sees the wolf coming, abandons the sheep, and flees; and the wolf tears them, and disperses the flock. 13The hireling flees, because he is a hireling, and cares not for the sheep. 14I am the good shepherd. And I know my own, and am known by them, 15(even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father;) and I give my life for the sheep. 16I have other sheep, besides, which are not of this fold. Them I must also bring; and they will obey my voice; and there shall be one flock, one shepherd. 17For this the Father loves me, because I give my life, to be afterward resumed. 18No one forces it from me: but I give it of myself. I have power to give it, and I have power to resume it. This commandment I have received from my Father. 19Again there was a division among the Jews, occasioned by this discourse. 20Many of them said, He has a demon, and is mad: why do you hear him? 21Others said, These are not the words of a demonize. Can a demon give sight to the blind? 22Afterward, when they were celebrating the feast of the dedication, at Jerusalem, 23it being in winter; as Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's portico, 24the Jews surrounding him, said to him, How long will you keep us in suspense? If you be the Messiah, tell us plainly. 25Jesus answered, I told you; but you believed not. The works which I do in my Father's name, testify of me. 26But you believe not, for you are not of my sheep. 27My sheep, as I told you, obey my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28Besides, I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any one wrest them out of my hands. 29My Father, who gave them me, is greater than all; and none can wrest them out of my Father's hand. 30I and the Father are one. 31Then the Jews again took up stones to stone him. 32Jesus said to them, Many good works I have shown you from my Father; for which of these works do you stone me? 33The Jews answered, For a good work we do not stone you, but for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself God. 34«Jesus replied, Is it not written in your law,'I said, You are gods?'» 35If the law styled them gods, to whom the word of God was addressed, and if the language of scripture in unexceptionable; 36do you charge him with blasphemy whom the Father has consecrated his Apostle to the world, for calling himself his Son? 37If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38But if I do, though you believe not me, believe the works, that you may know and believe, that the Father is in me, and I am in him. 39They then attempted again to seize him; but he escaped out of their hands, 40and retired again toward the Jordan, and abode in the place where John first immersed. 41And many resorted to him, who said, John, indeed, wrought no miracle: but all that John spoke of this man, is true. 42And many believed on him there.