John
Chapter 10
1 Indeed indeed I say to
you, he not entering through the door into the fold of the sheep, but going up
another way, he a thief is and a robber;
2 he but entering through
the door, a shepherd is of the sheep.
3 To him the door-keeper
opens; and the sheep the voice of him hears; and the own sheep he calls by
name, and he leads out them.
4 And when the own sheep
he puts forth, before them he goes; and the sheep him follows, because they know
the voice of him.
5 A stranger but not not
they may follow, but will flee from him; because not they know of the strangers
the voice.
6 This the parable said
to them the Jesus; they but not knew, what was, which he spoke to them.
7 Said then again to them
the Jesus: Indeed indeed I say to you, that I am the door of the sheep.
8 All as many as came
before me, thieves are and robbers; but not heard them the sheep.
9 I am the door; through
me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and shall come in and go out, and
pasture shall find.
10 The thief not come, if
not that he may steal and may kill, and may destroy; I come, that life they may
have, and abundance may have.
11 I am the shepherd the good;
the shepherd the good the life of himself lays down in behalf of the sheep.
12 The hireling but, and
not being a shepherd, of whom not are the sheep own, see the wolf coming, and
leaves the sheep, and flees; and the wolf seizes them, and scatters the sheep.
13 The but hireling
flees, because an hireling he is, and not it concerns him about the sheep.
14 I am the shepherd the
good; and know the mine, and am known by the mine,
15 as knows me the
Father, and I know the Father; and the life of me I lay down in behalf of the
sheep.
16 And other sheep I
have, which not is of the fold this; also them me it behooves to lead; and the
voice of me they will hear, and there will be one flock, one shepherd.
17 Through this the
Father me loves, because I lay down the life of me, that again I may receive
her;
18 no one takes her from
me, but I lay down her of myself; authority I have to lay down her, and
authority I have again to receive her; this the command I received from the
Father of me.
19 A division then again
occurred among the Jews through the words these.
20 Said and many of them:
A demon he has, and is mad; why him hear you?
21 Others said: These the
words not are of one being demonized; not a demon is able blind eyes to open?
22 Occurred now the feast
of dedication in the Jerusalem, and winter it was;
23 and was walking the
Jesus in the temple, in the porch of Solomon.
24 Surrounded therefore
him the Jews, and said to him: Till when the life of us dost thou take? If thou
art the Anointed, tell us plainly.
25 Answered them the
Jesus: I told you, and not you believe. The works, which I do in the name of
the Father of me these testify concerning me.
26 But you not believe;
not for you are of the sheep the mine.
27 As I said to you, the
sheep the mine the voice of me hears, and I know them, and they follow me;
28 and I life age-lasting
give to them, and not not they will perish into the age, and not will wrest any
one them out of the hand of me.
29 The father of me, who
has given to me, greater of all is; and no one is able to wrest out of the hand
of the Father of me;
30 I and the Father one
are.
31 Took up then again
stones the Jews, that they might stone him.
32 Answered them the
Jesus: Many good works I showed you from the Father of me; because of which of
them work do you stone me?
33 Answered him the Jews
saying: Concerning a good work not we stone thee, but concerning blasphemy, and
that thou, a man being, makest thyself a god.
34 Answered them the
Jesus: Not is it having been written in the law of you: I said, gods you are?
35 If them he called
gods, to whom the word of the God came, and not is able to be broken the
writing;
36 whom the Father set
apart, and sent into the world, you say: That thou blasphemest, because I said,
A son of the God I am?
37 If not I do the works
of the Father of me, not you believe me.
38 If but I do, and if me
not you believe, the works believe you; that you may know and you may believe,
that in me the Father, and I in him.
39 They sought therefore
again him to seize; and he went forth out of the hand of them.
40 And he went again
beyond the Jordan, to the place where was John the first dipping; and abode
there.
41 And many came to him,
and said: That John indeed a sign did not one; all but what things said John
concerning this, true was.
42 And believed many
there into him.
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