John 10:1–10

Parable of the Good Shepherd

¹“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is ^aa thief and a robber.

²“But he who enters by the door is ^aa shepherd of the sheep.

³“To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear ^ahis voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and ^bleads them out.

⁴“When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know ^ahis voice.

⁵“A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know ^athe voice of strangers.”

⁶This ^afigure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them.

⁷So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am ^athe door of the sheep.

⁸“All who came before Me are ^athieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

⁹“^aI am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

¹⁰“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they ^amay have life, and ¹have it abundantly.