³⁵Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” ³⁶He answered and said, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” ³⁷Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and he is the one who is speaking with you.” ⟦³⁸And he said, “I believe, Lord!” and he worshiped him. ³⁹And Jesus said,⟧^h “For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind!” ⁴⁰Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things and said to him, “We are not also blind, are we?”^* ⁴¹Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.

Jesus as the Good Shepherd

10“Truly, truly I say to you, the one who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up at some other place—that one is a thief and a robber. ²But the one who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep. ³For this one the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. ⁴Whenever he sends out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. ⁵And they will never follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.” ⁶Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what it was that he was saying to them.

⁷Then Jesus said to them^a again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. ⁸All those who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep do not listen to them. ⁹I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and will go out and will find pasture. ¹⁰The thief comes only^b so that he can steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and have it^* abundantly.

¹¹“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. ¹²The hired hand, who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf approaching and abandons the sheep and runs away—and the wolf seizes them and scatters them^*—¹³because he is a hired hand and he is not concerned^c about the sheep.

¹⁴“I am the good shepherd, and I know my own, and my own know me, ¹⁵just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶And I have other sheep which are not from this fold. I must bring these also, and they will hear my voice, and they will become one flock—one shepherd. ¹⁷Because of this the Father loves me, because I lay down my life so that I may take possession of it again. ¹⁸No one takes it from me, but I lay it down voluntarily.^d I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take possession of it again. This commandment I received from my Father.”

¹⁹Again there was a division among the Jews because of these words. ²⁰And many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is out of his mind! Why do you listen to him?” ²¹Others were saying, “These are not the words of one who is possessed by a demon! A demon is not able to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”^*

Read in Logos

John 10:10: The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Footnotes

hA number of important manuscripts lack v. 38 and the first part of v. 39 (“and Jesus said”)
*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “are we”
aSome manuscripts omit “to them”
bLiterally “does not come except”
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
cLiterally “it is not a concern to him”
dLiterally “from myself”
*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “is it”