John 10:11-42

11 ^aI am the good shepherd. The good shepherd ^blays down his life for the sheep. 12He who is ^ca hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and ^dleaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and ^escatters them. 13He flees because ^fhe is a hired hand and ^gcares nothing for the sheep. 14 ^hI am the good shepherd. ⁱI know my own and ^jmy own know me, 15 ^kjust as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and ^lI lay down my life for the sheep. 16And ^mI have other sheep that are not of this fold. ⁿI must bring them also, and ^othey will listen to my voice. So there will be ^pone flock, ^qone shepherd. 17 ^rFor this reason the Father loves me, ^sbecause ^tI lay down my life that I may take it up again. 18 ^uNo one takes it from me, but ^vI lay it down ^wof my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and ^xI have authority to take it up again. ^yThis charge I have received from my Father.”

19 ^zThere was again a division among the Jews because of these words. 20Many of them said, ^aa“He has a demon, and ^abis insane; why listen to him?” 21Others said, “These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. ^acCan a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

I and the Father Are One

22At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23and Jesus was walking in the temple, ^adin the colonnade of Solomon. 24So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are ^aethe Christ, ^aftell us plainly.” 25Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. ^agThe works that I do ^ahin my Father’s name bear witness about me, 26but ^aiyou do not believe because you are not among my sheep. 27 ^ajMy sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 ^akI give them eternal life, and ^althey will never perish, and ^amno one will snatch them out of my hand. 29My Father, ^anwho has given them to me, ▼

▼Some manuscripts What my Father has given to me

^apis greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of ^aqthe Father’s hand. 30 ^arI and the Father are one.”

31 ^asThe Jews picked up stones again to stone him. 32Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” 33The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but ^atfor blasphemy, because you, being a man, ^aumake yourself God.” 34Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in ^avyour Law, ^aw‘I said, you are gods’? 35If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be ^axbroken— 36do you say of him whom ^aythe Father consecrated and ^azsent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because ^baI said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37 ^bbIf I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; 38but if I do them, ^bceven though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that ^bdthe Father is in me and I am in the Father.” 39 ^beAgain they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.

40He went away again across the Jordan to the place ^bfwhere John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained. 41And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but ^bgeverything that John said about this man was true.” 42And ^bhmany believed in him there.