Dual Panel1THEN Jesus said, "Believe me when I tell you that anyone who does not enter the sheepfold through the door, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a rogue.
2It is the shepherd of the flock who goes in by the door.
3It is to him the doorkeeper opens the door and it is his voice that the sheep recognise. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out of the fold,
4and when he has brought all his own flock outside, he goes in front of them himself, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.
5They will never follow a strangerindeed, they will run away from him, for they do not recognise strange voices."
6Jesus gave them this illustration but they did not grasp the point of what he was saying to them.
7So Jesus said to them once more, "I do assure you that I myself am the door for the sheep.
8All who have gone before me are like thieves and rogues, but the sheep did not listen to them.
9I am the door. If a man goes in through me, he will be safe and sound; he can come in and out and find his food.
10The thief comes only to steal, to kill and to destroy, but I have come to bring them life in its fullness.
11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sake of his sheep.
12But the hired man, who is not the shepherd, and does not own the sheep, will see the wolf coming, desert the sheep and run away. And the wolf will attack the flock and send them flying.
13The hired man runs away because he is only a hired man and has no interest in the sheep.
14I am the good shepherd, and I know those that are mine and my sheep know me,
15just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I give my life for the sake of the sheep.
16"And I have other sheep who do not belong to this fold. I must lead these also, and they will hear my voice. So there will be one flock and one shepherd.
17This is the reason why the Father loves methat I lay down my life so that I may take it up again!
18No one is taking it from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the power to lay it down and I have the power to take it up again. This is the command that I have received from my Father."
19Once again, the Jews were in two minds about him because of these words,
20many of them remarking, "The devil's in him and he's insane. Why do you listen to him?"
21But others were saying, 'This is not the sort of thing a devilpossessed man would say! Can a devil make a blind man see?"
22Then came the dedication festival at Jerusalem. It was wintertime
23and Jesus was walking about inside the Temple in Solomon's cloisters.
24So the Jews closed in on him and said, "How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you really are Christ, tell us so straight out!"
25"I have told you," replied Jesus, "and you do not believe it. What I have done in my Father's name is sufficient to prove my claim,
26but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.
27My sheep recognise my voice and I know who they are. They follow me
28and I give them eternal life. They will never die and no one can snatch them out of my hand.
29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. And no one can snatch anything out of the Father's hand.
30I and the Father are One."
31Again the Jews for stones to stone him to death,
32but Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good things from the Fatherfor which of these do you intend to stone me?"
33"We're not going to stone you for any good things," replied the Jews, "but for blasphemy: because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God."
34"Is it not written in your own Law," replied Jesus," 'I have said ye are gods'?
35And if he called those men 'gods' to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),
36can you say to the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?
37If I fail to do what my Father does, then do not believe me.
38But if I do, even though you have no faith in me personally, then believe in the things that I do. Then you may come to know and realize that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."
39And again they tried to arrest him, but he moved out of their reach.
40Then Jesus went off again across the Jordan to the place where John had first baptized and there he stayed.
41A great many people came to him, and said, "John never gave us any sign but all that he said about this man was true."
42And in that place many believed in him.