web - John:10:1-21

web@John:10:1 @ "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

web@John:10:2 @ But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

web@John:10:3 @ The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

web@John:10:4 @ Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

web@John:10:5 @ They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers."

web@John:10:6 @ Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.

web@John:10:7 @ Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door.

web@John:10:8 @ All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.

web@John:10:9 @ I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

web@John:10:10 @ The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

web@John:10:11 @ I am the good shepherd. {Isaiah strkjv@40:11; Ezekiel strkjv@34:11-12,15,22} The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

web@John:10:12 @ He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

web@John:10:13 @ The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.

web@John:10:14 @ I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own;

web@John:10:15 @ even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

web@John:10:16 @ I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. {Isaiah strkjv@56:8} I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

web@John:10:17 @ Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, {Isaiah strkjv@53:7-8} that I may take it again.

web@John:10:18 @ No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."

web@John:10:19 @ Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.

web@John:10:20 @ Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?"

web@John:10:21 @ Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn't possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?" {Exodus strkjv@4:11}