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"Yes, indeed! I tell you, the person who doesn't enter the sheep-pen through the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
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But the one who goes in through the gate is the sheep's own shepherd.
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This is the one the gate-keeper admits, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep, each one by name, and leads them out.
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After taking out all that are his own, he goes on ahead of them; and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.
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They never follow a stranger but will run away from him, because strangers' voices are unfamiliar to them."
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Yeshua used this indirect manner of speaking with them, but they didn't understand what he was talking to them about.
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So Yeshua said to them again, "Yes, indeed! I tell you that I am the gate for the sheep.
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All those who have come before me have been thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.
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I am the gate; if someone enters through me, he will be safe and will go in and out and find pasture.
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The thief comes only in order to steal, kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, life in its fullest measure.