1 Truly, truly I say to you, he not entering through the door into the pen of the sheep, but going up from another place, that man is a thief and a robber.2 But he entering through the door is the shepherd of the sheep.3 For him the doorman opens and the sheep hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name and he leads them out.4 When all of his own go out, he goes before them and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.5 Yet they shall not follow another, but flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."6 Yahshua spoke this parable to them, but they did not know what these things were which He spoke to them.7 Therefore Yahshua spoke again: "Truly, truly I say to you that I am the door of the sheep!8 All as many as have come before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.9 I am the door! If one should enter by Me he shall be preserved and shall enter in and shall go out and he shall find pasture.10 The thief does not come except that he may steal and slaughter and destroy. I have come in order that they would have life and they would have abundance! "11 I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down His life on behalf of the sheep!12 The hired hand, who also not being the shepherd, of whom the sheep are not his own, watches the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf seizes and scatters them,13 because he is a hired hand and there is no care in him concerning the sheep! "14 I am the Good Shepherd and I know Mine and Mine know Me,15 just as the Father know Me and I know the Father, and I lay down My life on behalf of the sheep.16 And I have other sheep which are not from this pen, and these it is necessary for Me to bring and they shall hear My voice, and they shall be one flock, one shepherd. "17 For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life in order that I would receive it again.18 No one takes it from Me. Rather I lay it down by Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to receive it again. This command I have received from My Father."19 There was division again among the Judaeans on account of these words.20 Then many from among them said "He is mad and has a demon! Why do you listen to Him?"21 Others said "These are not the words of one possessed by a demon! Is a demon able to open the eyes of the blind?"22 Then there was the feast of dedication in Jerusalem - it was winter -23 and Yahshua walked about in the temple on the porch of Solomon.24 Then the Judaeans surrounded Him and said to Him: "How long do You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, speak to us openly!"25 Yahshua replied to them: "I have spoken to you and you do not believe! The works which I do in the name of My Father, these things testify concerning Me.26 But you do not believe, because you are not My sheep!27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them and they follow Me,28 and I give to them eternal life and they are not lost forever and one shall not snatch them from My hand.29 My Father who gave them to Me is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them from the hand of the Father!30 I and the Father are One!"31 Again the Judaeans took up stones that they would stone Him.32 Yahshua replied to them: "Many good works have I shown you from of the Father. Of those, because of what sort of work do you stone Me?"33 The Judaeans replied to Him: "We do not stone You on account of a good work but on account of blasphemy, and because You being a man make Yourself a god!"34 Yahshua replied to them: "Is it not written in your law that 'I have said, Ye are gods'?35 If He spoke of them as gods to whom the Word of Yahweh had come, and the writing is not able to be broken,36 He whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the Society, you tell that 'You blaspheme', because I said I am a son of Yahweh?37 If I do not do the works of My Father, you should not believe Me.38 But if I do, even if in Me you would not believe, you should believe in the works, that you must know and understand that the Father is with Me and I with the Father!"39 Therefore they again sought to seize Him, yet He got away from their hand.40 And He departed again across the Jordan to the place where Iohannes was first immersing and He abode there.41 And many came to Him and said that "Indeed Iohannes made not one sign, but all whatever Iohannes said concerning this man was true!"42 And many there believed in Him.