“Most certainly, I tell you, one 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.1 messageBut one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.1 messageThe gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.1 messageWhenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.2 messagesThey will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”1 messageJesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.1 messageJesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.1 messageAll who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.1 messageI am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.1 messageThe thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.15 messagesI am the good shepherd.The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.1 messageHe 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.1 messageThe hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.1 messageI am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;1 messageeven as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.1 messageI 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.1 messageTherefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.2 messagesNo 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.”2 messagesTherefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.1 messageMany of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”2 messagesOthers 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?”1 messageIt was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.3 messagesIt was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.3 messagesThe 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.”1 messageJesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.1 messageBut you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.1 messageMy sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.9 messagesI give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.2 messagesMy Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.1 messageI and the Father are one.”1 messageTherefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.1 messageJesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”1 messageThe Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”4 messagesJesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’5 messagesIf he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),5 messagesdo you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’3 messagesIf I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.1 messageBut 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.”1 messageThey sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.1 messageHe went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.1 messageMany came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.”1 messageMany believed in him there.1 message