1Truly, truly, I say to you, He who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber. 2But he who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3To him the gatekeeper opens; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. 4When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5And a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him: for they do not know the voice of strangers. 6This parable Yeshua spoke to them: but they did not understand what things they were which he spoke to them. 7Yeshua therefore said to them again, Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8All who came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. 9I am the door; by me if any man enters in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and go out, and shall find pasture. 10The thief does not come except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. 11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12He who is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, beholds the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees, and the wolf snatches them, and scatters them: 13he flees because he is a hireling, and does not care for the sheep. 14I am the good shepherd; and I know my own, and my own know me, 15even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and they shall become one flock, one shepherd. 17Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. 18No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment I received from my Father. 19There arose a division again among the Jews because of these words. 20And many of them said, He has a demon, and is mad; why do you hear him? 21Others said, These are not the sayings of one possessed with a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind? 22And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: 23it was winter; and Yeshua was walking in the temple in Solomon’s porch. 24The Jews therefore came around him, and said to him, How long do you hold us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly. 25Yeshua answered them, I told you, and you do not believe: the works that I do in my Father’s name, these bear witness of me. 26But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep. 27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28and I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. 29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. 30I and the Father are one. 31The Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32Yeshua answered them, Many good works I have shown you from the Father; for which of those works do you stone me? 33The Jews answered him, For a good work we do not stone you, but for blasphemy; and because you, being a man, make yourself God. 34Yeshua answered them, Is it not written in your Torah, I said, You are gods? 35If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken), 36do you say of him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme; because I said, I am the Son of God? 37If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me. 38But if I do them, though you do not believe me, believe the works: that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father. 39They sought again to take him: and he went forth out of their hand. 40And he went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first; and there he stayed. 41And many came to him; and they said, John indeed did no sign: but all things that John spoke of this man were true. 42And many believed in him there.