John 10

JuliaSmith^{(i) 1} Truly, truly, I say to you, He not coming in through the door into the court-yard of the sheep, but coming up from another place, he is a thief and robber. ² And he coming in through the door is the shepherd of the sheep. ³ To him the guard of the door opens; and the sheep hear his voice : and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. ⁴ And when he would put forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. ⁵ And a stranger they would not follow, but they will flee from him : for they know not the voice of strangers. ⁶ This proverb spake Jesus to then: and they knew not what things they were which he spake th them. ⁷ Then said Jesus again to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, That I am the door of the sheep. ⁸ All who came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep heard them not. ⁹ I am the door: if any come in through me, he shall be saved, and he shall me in, and go out, and find pasture. ¹⁰ The thief comes not, except that he steal, and sacrifice, and destroy: I came that they might have life, and have above measure. ¹¹ I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. ¹² But the hired one, and not being the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and he leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf plunders them, and scatters the sheep. ¹³ The hired flees, because he is hired, and no care is to him for the sheep. ¹⁴ I am the good shepherd, and I know mine, and am known by mine. ¹⁵ As the Father knows me, I also know the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶ And I have, other sheep, which are not of this court-yard: and I must also bring them, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, and one shepherd. ¹⁷ Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. ¹⁸ No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command received I of my Father. ¹⁹ Then was a division again among the Jews for these words. ²⁰ And many of them said, He has a demon, and is frenzied; why hear ye him? ²¹ Others said, These are not the words of a demon. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind. ²² And there was the festival of inauguration among the Jerusalemites, and it was winter.. ²³ And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. ²⁴ Then the Jews surrounded him, and said to him, How long takest thou away our soul? If thou art Christ, say to us with freedom of speech. ²⁵ Jesus answered them, I said to you, and ye believe not: the works which I do in my Father's name, these testify of me. ²⁶ But ye believe not, for ye are not of my sheep, as I said to you. ²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ And I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father, who has given to me, is greater than all; . and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. ³⁰ I and my Father are one. ³¹ Then again lifted up the Jews stones that they might stone him. ³² Jesus Answered them, Many good works I shewed you from my Father; for which of these works do ye stone me ³³ The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and that thou, being man, makest thyself God. ³⁴ Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said; Ye are gods? ³⁵ If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came, and the writing cannot be loosed; ³⁶ Whom the Father consecrated., and sent into the world, say ye that thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God ³⁷ If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. ³⁸ And if I do, though ye believe me not, believe the works: that ye might know, and believe, that the Father in me, and I in him. ³⁹ Then sought they again to take him: and he went out from their hand, ⁴⁰ And again he departed beyond Jordan to the place where John was first immersing; and he remained there. ⁴¹ And many came to him, and said, That truly John did no sign: but all which John said of him was true. ⁴² And many believed in him there.