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and a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, because they have not known the voice of strangers.'
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This similitude spake Jesus to them, and they knew not what the things were that he was speaking to them;
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Jesus said therefore again to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you -- I am the door of the sheep;
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all, as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them;
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I am the door, through me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and he shall come in, and go out, and find pasture.
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`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have [it] abundantly.
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`I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;
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and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep;
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and the hireling doth flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep.
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`I am the good shepherd, and I know my [sheep], and am known by mine,
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according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,