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John 10 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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I Am the Good Shepherd

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:1 -

“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 a thief and a robber.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:2 - “But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:3 - “To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:4 - “When he brings all his own out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:5 - “A stranger they will never follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:6 - This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:7 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:8 - “All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:9 - “I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:10 - “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and [fn]have it abundantly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:11 -

“I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:12 - “He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees—and the wolf snatches and scatters them—
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:13 - because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:14 - “I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me,
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:15 - even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:16 - “And I have other sheep, which are not from this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:17 - “For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:18 - “No one [fn]takes it away from Me, but from Myself, I lay it down. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:19 -

A division occurred again among the Jews because of these words.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:20 - And many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is insane. Why do you listen to Him?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:21 - Others were saying, “These are not the words of someone demon-possessed. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

I and the Father Are One

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:22 -

At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem;

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:23 - it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the Portico of Solomon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:24 - The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, “How long [fn]will You keep us in suspense? If You are the [fn]Christ, tell us openly.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:25 - Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these bear witness of Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:26 - “But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:27 - “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:28 - and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish—ever; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:29 - [fn]My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:30 - “I and the Father are [fn]one.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:31 -

The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:32 - Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:33 - The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:34 - Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I SAID, YOU ARE GODS’?
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:35 - “If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:36 - do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:37 - “If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:38 - but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and continue knowing that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:39 - Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, and He eluded their grasp.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:40 -

And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He was staying there.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:41 - And many came to Him and were saying, “While John did no sign, yet everything John said about this man was true.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:42 - And many believed in Him there.
LSB Footnotes
Or have abundance
Some mss has taken
Lit do You lift up our soul
Messiah
One early ms What My Father has given Me is greater than all
Or a unity, one essence
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