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¹ "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;² and he who is entering through the door is shepherd of the sheep;³ the doorkeeper opens to this one, and the sheep hear his voice, and his own sheep he calls by name, and leads them forth;⁴ and when he may put forth his own sheep, he goes on before them, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;⁵ and they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they have not known the voice of strangers."⁶ Jesus spoke this allegory to them, and they did not know what the things were that He was speaking to them;⁷ Jesus therefore said again to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I AM the door of the sheep;⁸ all, as many as came before Me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them;⁹ I AM the door, if anyone may come in through Me, he will be saved, and he will come in, and go out, and find pasture.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.¹¹ I AM the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays His life down for the sheep;¹² and the hired worker, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, beholds the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees; and the wolf snatches them, and scatters the sheep;¹³ and the hired worker flees because he is a hired worker, and is not caring for the sheep.¹⁴ I AM the good shepherd, and I know My [sheep], and am known by Mine,¹⁵ according as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father, and My life I lay down for the sheep,¹⁶ and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it is necessary for Me to bring, and My voice they will hear, and there will become one flock—one shepherd.¹⁷ Because of this the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life, that again I may take it;¹⁸ no one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself; authority I have to lay it down, and authority I have again to take it; this command I received from My Father."

¹⁹ Therefore, again, there came a division among the Jews, because of these words,²⁰ and many of them said, "He has a demon, and is mad, why do you hear Him?"²¹ Others said, "These sayings are not those of a demoniac; is a demon able to open blind men's eyes?"

²² And the Dedication in Jerusalem came, and it was winter,²³ and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon,²⁴ the Jews, therefore, came around Him and said to Him, "Until when do You hold our soul in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us freely."²⁵ Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in the Name of My Father, these testify concerning Me;²⁶ but you do not believe, for you are not of My sheep,²⁷ according as I said to you: My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me,²⁸ and I give continuous life to them, and they will not perish—throughout the age, and no one will snatch them out of My hand;²⁹ My Father, who has given to Me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch out of the hand of My Father;³⁰ I and the Father are one."³¹ Therefore, again, the Jews took up stones that they may stone Him;³² Jesus answered them, "I showed you many good works from My Father; because of which work of them do you stone Me?"³³ The Jews answered Him, saying, "We do not stone You for a good work, but for slander, and because You, being a man, make Yourself God."³⁴ Jesus answered them, "Is it not having been written in your law: I said, you are gods?³⁵ If He called them gods to whom the word of God came (and the Writing is not able to be broken),³⁶ of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, do you say—You slander, because I said, I am [the] Son of God?³⁷ If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;³⁸ and if I do, even if you may not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and may believe that the Father [is] in Me, and I in Him."

³⁹ Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, and He went forth out of their hand,⁴⁰ and went away again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John was at first immersing, and remained there,⁴¹ and many came to Him and said, "John, indeed, did no sign, and all things, as many as John said about this One were true";⁴² and many believed in Him there.