The Good Shepherd Teaching
John 10:1-21
10:1“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.
10:2But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
10:3The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
10:4Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
10:5They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”
10:6Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.
10:7Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.
10:8All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.
10:9I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and will find pasture.
10:10The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
10:11“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
10:12He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.