John 10:1-21

I Am the Good Shepherd

1 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.

2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

3 To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

5 ¹A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers. ”

6 This figure of speech Jesus ²used with them, but they ³did not understand what he was saying to them.

7 So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ⁴I am the door of the sheep.

8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, ⁵he will be saved and will go in and out and ⁶find pasture.

10 The thief comes only to steal and ⁷kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

11 ⁸I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd ⁹lays down his life for the sheep.

12 He who is ¹⁰a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and ¹¹leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and ¹²scatters them.

13 He flees because ¹³he is a hired hand and ¹⁴cares nothing for the sheep.

14 ¹⁵I am the good shepherd. ¹⁶I know my own and ¹⁷my own know me,

15 ¹⁸just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and ¹⁹I lay down my life for the sheep.

16 And ²⁰I have other sheep that are not of this fold. ²¹I must bring them also, and ²²they will listen to my voice. So there will be ²³one flock, ²⁴one shepherd.

17 ²⁵For this reason the Father loves me, ²⁶because ²⁷I lay down my life that I may take it up again.

18 ²⁸No one takes it from me, but ²⁹I lay it down ³⁰of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and ³¹I have authority to take it up again. ³²This charge I have received from my Father. ”

19 ³³There was again a division among the Jews because of these words.

20 Many of them said, ³⁴“He has a demon, and ³⁵is insane; why listen to him? ”

21 Others said, “These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. ³⁶Can a demon open the eyes of the blind? ”

Cross References

• 1. 10:5 [ver. 12, 13]
• 2. 10:6 ch. 9:40
• 3. 10:6 See Mark 9:32
• 4. 10:7 ver. 9; [ch. 14:6; Eph. 2:18]
• 5. 10:9 [ch. 5:34]
• 6. 10:9 Ps. 23:2; Ezek. 34:14
• 7. 10:10 [Jer. 23:1; Ezek. 34:3]
• 8. 10:11 Isa. 40:11; Ezek. 34:12, 23; 37:24; Zech. 13:7; Heb. 13:20; 1 Pet. 2:25; 5:4; [ch. 21:15-17; Ps. 23; Rev. 7:17]
• 9. 10:11 ver. 15, 17; ch. 15:13; 1 John 3:16; [Matt. 20:28; Mark 10:45]
• 10. 10:12 [Ezek. 34:2-6]
• 11. 10:12 Zech. 11:17; 13:7
• 12. 10:12 [Jer. 23:1-3]
• 13. 10:13 [1 Pet. 5:2]
• 14. 10:13 Zech. 11:16
• 15. 10:14 See ver. 11
• 16. 10:14 ver. 27; Nah. 1:7; 2 Tim. 2:19
• 17. 10:14 ver. 4
• 18. 10:15 See Matt. 11:27
• 19. 10:15 See ver. 11
• 20. 10:16 Isa. 56:8
• 21. 10:16 [Ezek. 34:11-13; Matt. 8:11, 12; Eph. 2:13-18; 1 Pet. 2:25]
• 22. 10:16 ch. 5:25; 18:37; [Acts 28:28]
• 23. 10:16 [ch. 11:52; 12:32; 17:11, 21, 22]
• 24. 10:16 Ezek. 34:23; 37:24
• 25. 10:17 Phil. 2:9; See ch. 5:20
• 26. 10:17 Isa. 53:7, 8, 12; Heb. 2:9
• 27. 10:17 ver. 11
• 28. 10:18 [Matt. 26:53]
• 29. 10:18 [See ver. 17 above]
• 30. 10:18 [ch. 5:30]
• 31. 10:18 ch. 2:19; [Phil. 2:7]
• 32. 10:18 ch. 12:49; 14:31; 15:10
• 33. 10:19 ch. 7:43; 9:16
• 34. 10:20 See ch. 7:20
• 35. 10:20 [Mark 3:21]
• 36. 10:21 [Ex. 4:11; Ps. 146:8]; See ch. 9:33