New American Standard Bible 1995

John 10:5-14

5A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know 1the voice of strangers.” 6This 2figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them.

7So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am 3the door of the sheep. 8All who came before Me are 4thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. 9 5I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they 6may have life, and 7have it abundantly.

11“8I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd 9lays down His life for the sheep. 12He who is a hired hand, and not a 10shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13He flees because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep. 14 11I am the good shepherd, and 12I know My own and My own know Me,

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Notes

1. John 10:5 John 10:4, 16, 27 ↩
2. John 10:6 John 16:25, 29; 2 Pet 2:22 ↩
3. John 10:7 John 10:1f, 9 ↩
4. John 10:8 Jer 23:1f; Ezek 34:2ff; John 10:1 ↩
5. John 10:9 John 10:1f, 9 ↩
6. John 10:10 John 5:40 ↩
7. John 10:10 Or have abundance ↩
8. John 10:11 Is 40:11; Ezek 34:11-16, 23; John 10:14; Heb 13:20; 1 Pet 5:4; Rev 7:17 ↩
9. John 10:11 John 10:15, 17, 18; 15:13; 1 John 3:16 ↩
10. John 10:12 John 10:2 ↩
11. John 10:14 John 10:11 ↩
12. John 10:14 John 10:27 ↩

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