John 10:7-18

New King James Version

Jesus the Good Shepherd

⁷ Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. ⁸ All who ever came ^[a]before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. ^9 (A)I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. ¹⁰ 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.

^11 (B)“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. ¹² But a ^[b]hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and ^(C)leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. ¹³ The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. ¹⁴ I am the good shepherd; and ^(D)I know My sheep, and ^(E)am known by My own. ^15 (F)As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; ^(G)and I lay down My life for the sheep. ¹⁶ And ^(H)other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; ^(I)and there will be one flock and one shepherd.

¹⁷ “Therefore My Father ^(J)loves Me, ^(K)because I lay down My life that I may take it again. ¹⁸ No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I ^(L)have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. ^(M)This command I have received from My Father.”