### World English Bible

John 9

## The Gospel According to Saint John

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| # Chapter 10
#### 1 | 'Most assuredly, I tell you, he who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
#### 2 | But he who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
#### 3 | The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
#### 4 | Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
#### 5 | They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers.'
#### 6 | Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.
#### 7 | Jesus therefore said to them again, 'Most assuredly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door.
#### 8 | All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.
#### 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.
#### 10 | The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
#### 11 | I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
#### 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.
#### 13 | The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.
#### 14 | I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own;
#### 15 | even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
#### 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.
#### 17 | Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
#### 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.'
#### 19 | Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.
#### 20 | Many of them said, 'He has a demon, and is mad! Why do you listen to him?'
#### 21 | Others said, 'These are not the sayings of one possessed with a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?'
#### 22 | It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.
#### 23 | It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch.
#### 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.'
#### 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.
#### 26 | But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
#### 27 | My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
#### 28 | I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
#### 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.
#### 30 | I and the Father are one.'
#### 31 | Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.
#### 32 | Jesus answered them, 'I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?'
#### 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.'
#### 34 | Jesus answered them, 'Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'
#### 35 | If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the scripture can't be broken),
#### 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?'
#### 37 | If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me.
#### 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.'
#### 39 | They sought again to seize him, and he went forth out of their hand.
#### 40 | He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was at the first baptizing, and there he stayed.
#### 41 | Many came to him. They said, 'John indeed did no sign, but everything whatever that John said about this man is true.'
#### 42 | Many believed in him there.

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