7 [9:40]And the Pharisees who were with him heard these things and said to him, Are we also blind? [9:41]Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would not have had sin; but now you say, We see, your sin remains. [10:1]I tell you most truly, he that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs in at some other place, he is a thief and robber; [10:2]but he that enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. [10:3]To him the gate-keeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his sheep by name, and leads them out. [10:4]When he puts out all his sheep he goes before them, and the sheep follow him; for they know his voice. [10:5]But a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, for they know not the voice of strangers. [10:6]This parable spoke Jesus to them, but they knew not what the words which he spoke to them meant. 8 [10:7]Then said Jesus to them again, I tell you most truly, I am the door of the sheep. [10:8]All who came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep have not heard them. [10:9]I am the door; by me if any one enters in he shall be saved, and go in and out, and find pasturage. [10:10]The thief comes not, except to steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. 9 [10:11]I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. [10:12]But the hired servant, and one who is not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf seizes and scatters them; [10:13]for he is a hired servant and cares not for the sheep. [10:14]I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, [10:15]as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I give my life for the sheep. 10 [10:16]And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; and them I must lead, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one flock, one shepherd. [10:17]Therefore my Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it again. [10:18]No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have a right to lay it down, and I have a right to take it again; this commandment have I received from my Father. [10:19]There was a division again among the Jews on account of these words; [10:20]and many of them said, He has a demon, and is mad; why do you hear him? [10:21]Others said, These are not the words of a demoniac; can a demon open the eyes of the blind? CHAPTER XIII. CHRIST AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION, AND BEYOND THE JORDAN.