nsb - John:10

nsb@John:10:1 @ »Truly I tell you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs up some other way is a thief and a robber.

nsb@John:10:2 @ »He who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

nsb@John:10:3 @ »The doorkeeper opens to him and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his sheep by name and leads them.

nsb@John:10:4 @ »When all of his own are out he leads them. The sheep follow him for they know his voice.

nsb@John:10:5 @ »They will not follow a stranger but will flee from him. They do not know the voice of a stranger.«

nsb@John:10:6 @ They did not understand this illustration Jesus spoke to them.

nsb@John:10:7 @ Jesus explained: »I am the door of the sheep.

nsb@John:10:8 @ »Thieves and robbers came in place of me but the sheep did not listen to them.

nsb@John:10:9 @ »I am the door. If any man enters through me he will be saved. He will go in and out and find pasture.

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

nsb@John:10:11 @ »I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

nsb@John:10:12 @ »The hired man owns no sheep. He is not the shepherd. He sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep. The wolf snatches them, and scatters them.

nsb@John:10:13 @ »He leaves because he is a hired man and does not care for the sheep.

nsb@John:10:14 @ »I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and my own know me.

nsb@John:10:15 @ Just as the Father knows me I know the Father! I lay down my life for the sheep.

nsb@John:10:16 @ »I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I will also bring them. They will hear my voice and they will become one flock, one shepherd.

nsb@John:10:17 @ »The Father loves me. Therefore I lay down my life and I take it back again.

nsb@John:10:18 @ »No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down voluntarily. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I have received this commandment from my Father.«

nsb@John:10:19 @ The Jews were again divided because of what Jesus said.

nsb@John:10:20 @ Many of them said: »He has a demon and is mad. Why listen to him?«

nsb@John:10:21 @ Others said: »These are not the sayings of one possessed with a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?«

nsb@John:10:22 @ It was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem.

nsb@John:10:23 @ It was wintertime. Jesus was walking in the temple on Solomons porch.

nsb@John:10:24 @ The Jews came to him and asked: »How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.«

nsb@John:10:25 @ Jesus replied: »I told you and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Fathers name bear witness of me.

nsb@John:10:26 @ »You do not believe because you are not my sheep!

nsb@John:10:27 @ »My sheep hear my voice. I know them and they follow me.

nsb@John:10:28 @ »I give them eternal life. They will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.

nsb@John:10:29 @ »My Father has given them to me. He is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them out of the Fathers hand.

nsb@John:10:30 @ »The Father and I are one.«

nsb@John:10:31 @ The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.

nsb@John:10:32 @ Jesus replied to them: »I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of those works do you stone me?«

nsb@John:10:33 @ The Jews answered him: »We do not stone you for good work but for blasphemy. You are a man and you make yourself like God.« (John strkjv@1:1)

nsb@John:10:34 @ Jesus said: »Is it not written in your law, I said, you are god-like ones?

nsb@John:10:35 @ »So if he called them god-like ones, those to whom the word of God came, and the Scriptures may not be annulled,

nsb@John:10:36 @ »do you say to the one whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, you blaspheme? And this because I said, I am the Son of God. (Psalm strkjv@82:1, 6) (John strkjv@1:34; John strkjv@5:18) (Luke strkjv@1:35)

nsb@John:10:37 @ »If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not believe me.

nsb@John:10:38 @ »But if I do them and you do not believe me, believe the works! That way you may know and understand that the Father is with me, and I am with the Father.«

nsb@John:10:39 @ They tried again to capture him but he escaped from them.

nsb@John:10:40 @ He traveled beyond the Jordan into the place where John first baptized and stayed there.

nsb@John:10:41 @ Many came to him and they said: »John indeed did not perform a single miracle. Yet everything John said about this man was true.«

nsb@John:10:42 @ Many believed in him there.