John 10:4-14

4 After taking out all that are his own, he goes on ahead of them; and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.
5 They never follow a stranger but will run away from him, because strangers' voices are unfamiliar to them."
6 Yeshua used this indirect manner of speaking with them, but they didn't understand what he was talking to them about.
7 So Yeshua said to them again, "Yes, indeed! I tell you that I am the gate for the sheep.
8 All those who have come before me have been thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.
9 I am the gate; if someone enters through me, he will be safe and will go in and out and find pasture.
10 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.
11 "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
12 The hired hand, since he isn't a shepherd and the sheep aren't his own, sees the wolf coming, abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf drags them off and scatters them.
13 The hired worker behaves like this because that's all he is, a hired worker; so it doesn't matter to him what happens to the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd; I know my own, and my own know me --
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