Victory over death
1“IN very truth I tell you, the man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is nothing but a thief and a robber.
2He who enters by the door is the shepherd in charge of the sheep.
3The door-keeper admits him, and the sheep hear his voice; he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
4When he has brought them all out, he goes ahead of them and the sheep follow, because they know his voice.
5They will not follow a stranger; they will run away from him, because they do not recognize the voice of strangers.”
6This was a parable that Jesus told them, but they did not understand what he meant by it.
7So Jesus spoke again: “In very truth I tell you, I am the door of the sheepfold.
8The sheep paid no heed to any who came before me, for they were all thieves and robbers.
9I am the door; anyone who comes into the fold through me will be safe. He will go in and out and find pasture.
10“A thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and may have it in all its fullness.
11I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
12The hired man, when he sees the wolf coming, abandons the sheep and runs away, because he is not the shepherd and the sheep are not his. Then the wolf harries the flock and scatters the sheep.
13The man runs away because he is a hired man and cares nothing for the sheep.
14“I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me,
15as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16But there are other sheep of mine, not belonging to this fold; I must lead them as well, and they too will listen to my voice. There will then be one flock, one shepherd.
17The Father loves me because I lay down my life, to receive it back again.
18No one takes it away from me; I am laying it down of my own free will. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to receive it back again; this charge I have received from my Father.”
19These words once again caused a division among the Jews.
20Many of them said, “He is possessed, he is out of his mind. Why listen to him?”
21Others said, “No one possessed by a demon could speak like this. Could a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
22IT was winter, and the festival of the Dedication was being held in Jerusalem.
23As Jesus was walking in the temple precincts, in Solomon's Portico,
24the Jews gathered round him and asked: “How long are you going to keep us in suspense? Tell us plainly: are you the Messiah?”
25“I have told you,” said Jesus, “and you do not believe. My deeds done in my Father's name are my credentials,
26but because you are not sheep of my flock you do not believe.
27My own sheep listen to my voice; I know them and they follow me.
28I give them eternal life and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my care.
29My Father who has given them to me is greater than all, and no one can snatch them out of the Father's care.
30The Father and I are one.”
31Once again the Jews picked up stones to stone him.
32At this Jesus said to them, “By the Father's power I have done many good deeds before your eyes; for which of these are you stoning me?”
33“We are not stoning you for any good deed,” the Jews replied, “but for blasphemy: you, a man, are claiming to be God.”
34Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said: You are gods’?
35It is those to whom God's word came who are called gods -- and scripture cannot be set aside.
36Then why do you charge me with blasphemy for saying, ‘I am God's son,’ I whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world?
37“If my deeds are not the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.
38But if they are, then even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may recognize and know that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”
39This provoked them to make another attempt to seize him, but he escaped from their clutches.
40JESUS withdrew again across the Jordan, to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and stayed there
41while crowds came to him. “John gave us no miraculous sign,” they said, “but all that he told us about this man was true.”
42And many came to believe in him there.
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