John 10

1“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.Cross-references: Isa 56:10 · Jer 14:15 · Jer 23:16 · Jer 23:21 · Jer 23:32 · Jer 28:15 · +20 more

2But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.Cross-references: Ps 23:1 · Ps 80:1 · Eccl 12:11 · Isa 40:11 · Isa 63:11 · Ezek 34:23 · +17 more

3The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.Cross-references: Ex 33:17 · Ps 23:2 · Ps 78:52 · Ps 80:1 · Song 8:13 · Isa 40:11 · +22 more

4Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.Cross-references: Deut 1:30 · Song 2:8 · Song 5:2 · Mic 2:12 · Matt 16:24 · John 3:29 · +14 more

5They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”Cross-references: 1Ki 22:7 · Prov 19:27 · Mark 4:24 · Luke 8:18 · Eph 4:11 · Col 2:6 · +7 more

6Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.Cross-references: Ps 82:5 · Ps 106:7 · Prov 28:5 · Isa 6:9 · Isa 56:11 · Dan 12:10 · +10 more

7Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.Cross-references: Ps 79:13 · Ps 95:7 · Ps 100:3 · Isa 53:6 · Ezek 34:31 · Luke 15:4 · +5 more

8All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.Cross-references: Isa 56:10 · Jer 23:1 · Ezek 22:25 · Ezek 34:2 · Zeph 3:3 · Zech 11:4 · +5 more

9I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and will find pasture.Cross-references: Ps 23:1 · Ps 80:1 · Ps 95:7 · Ps 100:3 · Isa 40:11 · Isa 49:9 · +8 more

10The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.Cross-references: Isa 56:11 · Ezek 34:2 · Hos 7:1 · Matt 18:10 · Matt 20:28 · Matt 21:13 · +16 more

11“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.Cross-references: Gen 31:39 · 1Sam 17:34 · 2Sam 24:17 · Ps 23:1 · Ps 80:1 · Isa 40:11 · +17 more

12He 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.Cross-references: Isa 56:10 · Ezek 34:2 · Zech 11:16 · Matt 7:15 · Matt 10:16 · John 10:3 · +7 more

13The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care for the sheep.Cross-references: John 12:6 · Acts 18:17 · Phil 2:20

14I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;Cross-references: Ps 1:6 · Isa 53:11 · John 10:11 · John 10:27 · John 17:3 · John 17:8 · +14 more

15even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.Cross-references: Isa 53:4 · Isa 53:8 · Isa 53:10 · Dan 9:26 · Zech 13:7 · Matt 11:27 · +18 more

16I 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.Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Ps 22:26 · Ps 72:17 · Ps 86:9 · Ps 98:2 · Eccl 12:11 · +34 moreExamined: Jehovah's Witnesses →

17Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.Cross-references: Isa 42:1 · Isa 42:21 · Isa 53:7 · John 3:25 · John 10:11 · John 10:15 · +5 more

18No 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.”Cross-references: Ps 40:6 · Isa 53:10 · Matt 26:53 · John 2:19 · John 5:30 · John 6:38 · +16 more

19Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.Cross-references: Matt 10:34 · Luke 12:51 · John 7:40 · John 9:16 · Acts 14:4 · Acts 23:7 · +2 more

20Many of them said, “He has a demon and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”Cross-references: Isa 53:8 · Matt 9:34 · Matt 10:25 · Mark 3:21 · John 7:20 · John 7:46 · +7 more

21Others 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?”Cross-references: Ex 4:11 · Ex 8:19 · Ps 94:9 · Ps 146:8 · Prov 20:12 · Isa 35:5 · +4 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

22It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.

23It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.Cross-references: Acts 3:11 · Acts 5:12

24The 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.”Cross-references: 1Ki 18:21 · Matt 11:3 · Luke 3:15 · Luke 22:67 · John 1:19 · John 8:25 · +4 more

25Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.Cross-references: John 3:2 · John 5:17 · John 7:31 · John 8:12 · John 8:24 · John 8:58 · +9 more

26But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.Cross-references: John 6:37 · John 6:44 · John 6:65 · John 8:47 · John 10:4 · John 10:27 · +4 more

27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:21 · Matt 7:23 · Matt 16:24 · Matt 17:5 · Matt 25:12 · Mark 8:34 · +19 more

28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.Cross-references: Deut 33:3 · 1Sam 2:9 · Job 17:9 · Ps 31:5 · Ps 37:28 · Ps 103:17 · +50 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

29My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.Cross-references: Ex 18:11 · Ps 145:3 · Dan 4:3 · Mal 1:14 · John 6:37 · John 14:28 · +4 more

30I and the Father are one.”Cross-references: Matt 11:27 · Matt 28:19 · John 1:1 · John 5:17 · John 5:23 · John 8:58 · +9 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

31Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone him.Cross-references: Ex 17:4 · 1Sam 30:6 · Matt 21:35 · Matt 23:35 · John 5:18 · John 8:59 · +3 more

32Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”Cross-references: 1Sam 19:4 · 2Chr 24:20 · Ps 35:12 · Ps 109:4 · Eccl 4:4 · Matt 11:5 · +7 more

33The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”Cross-references: Lev 24:14 · Lev 24:16 · 1Ki 21:10 · Ps 82:6 · John 5:18 · John 10:30 · +2 more

34Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’?Cross-references: Ex 4:16 · Ex 7:1 · Ex 22:28 · Ps 82:1 · Ps 82:6 · Ps 138:1 · +5 more

35If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),Cross-references: Gen 15:1 · Deut 18:15 · Deut 18:18 · 1Sam 14:36 · 1Sam 15:1 · 1Sam 23:9 · +18 more

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’?Cross-references: Ps 2:2 · Ps 2:6 · Isa 11:2 · Isa 42:1 · Isa 42:3 · Isa 49:1 · +32 more

37If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.Cross-references: Matt 11:20 · John 5:31 · John 10:25 · John 10:32 · John 12:37 · John 14:10 · +1 more

38But 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.”Cross-references: John 3:2 · John 5:36 · John 10:25 · John 10:30 · John 14:9 · John 14:20 · +4 more

39They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.Cross-references: Luke 4:29 · John 7:30 · John 7:44 · John 8:59 · John 10:31

40He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and he stayed there.Cross-references: John 1:28 · John 3:26 · John 7:1 · John 11:54

41Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.”Cross-references: Matt 3:11 · Matt 4:23 · Matt 14:2 · Mark 1:37 · Luke 5:1 · Luke 7:26 · +6 more

42Many believed in him there.Cross-references: John 2:23 · John 4:39 · John 4:41 · John 7:31 · John 8:30 · John 11:45 · +1 more