John 10

Jesus as the Door John 10:7–10

⁷Verse 7. Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door. ⁸Verse 8. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. ⁹Verse 9. I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture. ¹⁰Verse 10. The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Jesus as the Good Shepherd John 10:11–16

¹¹Verse 11. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. ¹²Verse 12. He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. ¹³Verse 13. The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep. ¹⁴Verse 14. I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; ¹⁵Verse 15. even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶Verse 16. I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

Division Among the Jews John 10:17–21

¹⁷Verse 17. Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. ¹⁸Verse 18. No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.” ¹⁹Verse 19. Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words. ²⁰Verse 20. Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?” ²¹Verse 21. Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”

Claim of Unity with the Father John 10:22–30

²²Verse 22. It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem. ²³Verse 23. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. ²⁴Verse 24. The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” ²⁵Verse 25. Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. ²⁶Verse 26. But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. ²⁷Verse 27. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

²⁸Verse 28. I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹Verse 29. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. ³⁰Verse 30. I and the Father are one.”

Accusations of Blasphemy John 10:31–39

³¹Verse 31. Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him. ³²Verse 32. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?” ³³Verse 33. The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.” ³⁴Verse 34. Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’ ³⁵Verse 35. If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken), ³⁶Verse 36. do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’

³⁷Verse 37. If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. ³⁸Verse 38. But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” ³⁹Verse 39. They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

Ministry Beyond the Jordan John 10:40–42

⁴⁰Verse 40. He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed. ⁴¹Verse 41. Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.” ⁴²Verse 42. Many believed in him there.