Some were so enraged by those words that they walked with Him no more. “I am the vine; you are the branches,” He said. “Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing” (15:5). He also said, “I am the door” (10:9), that is, the way to salvation. Contrasting Himself with the false prophets of the day, who were poor shepherds more concerned with their paychecks than with the care and nurture of the sheep, Jesus said, “I am the good shepherd. I