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¹ I assure you, he that entreth not by the door into the sheep-fold, but climbeth up some other way, is a thief and a robber. ² but he that enters in by the door, is the pastor of the sheep. ³ the porter lets him in, and the sheep know his voice: he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out to pasture. ⁴ when he lets out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: because they know his voice. ⁵ a stranger they will not follow, but flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. ⁶ Jesus talk'd to them in this figurative way: but they did not understand the meaning of his discourse. ⁷ Jesus therefore subjoin'd, I declare unto you, I am the door of the sheep-fold. ⁸ they who have personated me, are all thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not follow them. ⁹ I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved; he shall go in and out, and find pasture. ¹⁰ the thief comes only to steal, to kill, and destroy: but I am come that they might have life, and have it with all its advantages. ¹¹ I am the true pastor: the true pastor exposes his life for the sheep. ¹² but the hireling, who is not the pastor, nor has the property of the sheep, seeing the wolf come, leaves the sheep, and flies away: so the wolf seizes some, and disperses the flock. ¹³ the hireling flies, because he is an hireling, and is under no concern for the sheep. ¹⁴ I am the true pastor, I know my sheep, and my sheep know me, ¹⁵ (as the father and I are known to one another:) and I lay down my life for them. ¹⁶ other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring; they will hear my voice; and so there shall be but one fold, and one pastor. ¹⁷ therefore doth my father love me, because I lay down my life, but I shall reassume it. ¹⁸ no man can take it from me, but I voluntarily lay it down: I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. this is the order I have received from my father.

¹⁹ There was another schism therefore among the Jews, occasion'd by this discourse. ²⁰ for many of them said, he is possess'd with a demon, and is mad; why do you mind him? ²¹ others said, this is not the language of one possess'd: can a demon give sight to the blind?

²² At length the feast of the dedication was kept at Jerusalem, when the weather happen'd to be foul. ²³ as Jesus therefore was walking in the temple in Solomon's portico, ²⁴ the Jews came about him, and said, how long will you keep us in suspense? if you are the Messiah, tell us plainly. ²⁵ Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye did not believe me: the works that I do in my father's name, they testify of me. ²⁶ but, as I said before, you do not believe; because ye are not of my sheep. ²⁷ my sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ it is I that give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any one force them out of my hand. ²⁹ my father who gave them me, is greater than all: so that no one is able to force them out of my father's hand. ³⁰ I and my father are one. ³¹ then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. ³² Jesus answered them, many good works have I shewed you from my father; for which of those works would you stone me? ³³ the Jews answered him, saying, it is not for any good work that we stone thee; but for blasphemy, inasmuch as you, being a man, pretend to be a God. ³⁴ Jesus answered them, is it not written in your law , "I said ye are Gods?" ³⁵ if the law stiles them Gods, who received the orders of God, and if the scripture is of any authortiy, ³⁶ how can you say that I blaspheme, I whom the father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, because I said I am the son of God? ³⁷ if I do not the works of my father, believe me not. ³⁸ but if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know and believe that the father is in me, and I in him.

³⁹ Thereupon they again endeavour'd to seize him: but he escaped out of their hands, and retir'd beyond Jordan, ⁴⁰ to the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode. ⁴¹ and many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but every thing that he said concerning this man, was true. ⁴² so that many people there believed on him.