and do you teach us?" They threw him out.
009:035 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him,
he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"
009:036 He answered, "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?"
009:037 Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he who
speaks with you."
009:038 He said, "Lord, I believe!" and he worshiped him.
009:039 Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who
don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind."
009:040 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things,
and said to him, "Are we also blind?"
009:041 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin;
but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.
010:001 "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.
010:002 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
010:003 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep
listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name,
and leads them out.
010:004 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them,
and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
010:005 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him;
for they don't know the voice of strangers."
010:006 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand
what he was telling them.
010:007 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell you,
I am the sheep's door.
010:008 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep
didn't listen to them.
010:009 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved,
and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
010:010 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy.
I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
010:011 I am the good shepherd.{Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22}
The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
010:012 He 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.
010:013 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't
care for the sheep.
010:014 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own;
010:015 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father.
I lay down my life for the sheep.
010:016 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold.{Isaiah 56:8}
I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice.
They will become one flock with one shepherd.
010:017 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life,{Isaiah
53:7-8} that I may take it again.
010:018 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself.
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