John 10:1–10

¹‘Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber; ²and he who is entering through the door is shepherd of the sheep; ³to this one the doorkeeper doth open, and the sheep hear his voice, and his own sheep he doth call by name, and doth lead them forth; ⁴and when his own sheep he may put forth, before them he goeth on, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice; ⁵and a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, because they have not known the voice of strangers.’ ⁶This similitude spake Jesus to them, and they knew not what the things were that he was speaking to them; ⁷Jesus said therefore again to them, ‘Verily, verily, I say to you—I am the door of the sheep; ⁸all, as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them; ⁹I am the door, through me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and he shall come in, and go out, and find pasture.

¹⁰‘The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.