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Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.
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Then Jesus said to them again, "Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
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All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
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I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
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The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
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I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
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But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.
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The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.
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I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.
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As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
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And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.
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Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.
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No one takes it 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 I have received from My Father."
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Therefore there was a division again among the Jews because of these sayings.
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And many of them said, "He has a demon and is mad. Why do you listen to Him?"
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Others said, "These are not the words of one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"
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Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter.
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And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch.
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Then the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him, "How long do You keep us in doubt? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly."
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Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father's name, they bear witness of Me.
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But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.
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My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
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And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.
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My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand.
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I and My Father are one."
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Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
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Jesus answered them, "Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?"
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The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."
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Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods" '?
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If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),
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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'?