John 10:7-15

7 So Jesus said to them again, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am ¹the door of the sheep.

8 "All who came before Me are ²thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

9 "³I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go * in and out and find pasture.

10 "The thief comes only * * to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they ⁴may have life, and have it abundantly.

11 "⁵I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd ⁶lays down His life for the sheep.

12 "He who is a hired hand, and not a ⁷shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

13 "He flees because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep.

14 "⁸I am the good shepherd, and ⁹I know My own and My own know Me,

15 even as ¹⁰the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and ¹¹I lay down My life for the sheep.

Cross References

• 1. John 10:1f, 9
• 2. Jeremiah 23:1; Ezekiel 34:2f; John 10:1
• 3. John 10:1f, 9
• 4. John 5:40
• 5. Isaiah 40:11; Ezek 34:11-16, 23; John 10:14; Hebrews 13:20; 1 Peter 5:4; Revelation 7:17
• 6. John 10:15, 17, 18; John 15:13; 1 John 3:16
• 7. John 10:2
• 8. John 10:11
• 9. John 10:27
• 10. Matthew 11:27; Luke 10:22
• 11. John 10:11, 17, 18

Footnotes

• [a] Or "have abundance"