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?”^*

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John 10:11: I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Footnotes

*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”