John 10:1-13 ▼

1 I assure you, he that entreth not by the door into the sheep-fold, but climbeth up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

2 but he that enters in by the door, is the pastor of the sheep.

3 the porter lets him in, and the sheep know his voice: he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out to pasture.

4 when he lets out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: because they know his voice.

5 a stranger they will not follow, but flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

6 Jesus talk'd to them in this figurative way: but they did not understand the meaning of his discourse.

7 Jesus therefore subjoin'd, I declare unto you, I am the door of the sheep-fold.

8 they who have personated me, are all thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not follow them.

9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved; he shall go in and out, and find pasture.

10 the thief comes only to steal, to kill, and destroy: but I am come that they might have life, and have it with all its advantages.

11 I am the true pastor: the true pastor exposes his life for the sheep.

12 but the hireling, who is not the pastor, nor has the property of the sheep, seeing the wolf come, leaves the sheep, and flies away: so the wolf seizes some, and disperses the flock.

13 the hireling flies, because he is an hireling, and is under no concern for the sheep.