“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. Mat 7:15Jhn 10:8-101Jn 4:1Rom 16:18Heb 5:41Pe 1:102Pe 2:1Ezk 34:2-5 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. Act 20:28Jhn 10:141Pe 5:4Psa 23:1Isa 40:11Ecc 12:111Ti 4:14Jhn 10:11-12 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. Ezk 34:11-162Ti 2:19Jhn 10:4Jhn 10:14Jhn 10:16Psa 78:52-53Rev 3:20Jhn 10:26-27 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Deu 1:30Jhn 10:16Jhn 12:261Co 11:11Pe 2:21Jhn 10:8Jhn 18:371Pe 5:3 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.” 1Jn 4:5-6Col 2:6-101Pe 2:1-3Eph 4:11-15Mrk 4:24Pro 19:27Rev 2:21Jn 2:21 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them. Isa 56:11Pro 28:5Psa 82:5Dan 12:10Isa 6:9-10Jhn 16:25Mat 13:51Psa 106:7
Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door. Jhn 14:6Eph 2:18Jhn 10:1Jhn 10:9Ezk 34:31Psa 79:13Heb 10:19-22Psa 100:3 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. Ezk 34:2Jer 23:1Jhn 10:1Act 5:36Ezk 22:25-28Isa 56:10-12Jhn 10:27Jhn 10:5 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and will find pasture. Jhn 14:6Eph 2:18Jhn 10:7Jhn 10:1Rom 5:1-2Psa 100:3-4Psa 95:7Psa 23:1-6 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. Luk 19:10Jhn 6:51Jhn 12:47Jhn 3:17Jhn 6:331Ti 1:15Mat 20:28Jhn 10:1
“I am the good shepherd. 1 The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. Psa 23:1Jhn 10:14-15Jhn 15:13Rev 7:17Isa 40:111Pe 2:24-251Jn 3:16Ezk 34:23 He 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. 2Pe 2:3Act 20:29Ezk 34:2-6Zec 11:16-17Mat 10:161Pe 5:21Ti 3:31Ti 3:8 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care for the sheep. Php 2:20Jhn 12:6Act 18:17 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; Jhn 10:272Ti 2:19Jhn 10:111Jn 5:20Eph 1:17Jhn 17:32Ti 1:12Psa 1:6 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. Gal 1:4Jhn 10:11Mat 11:271Jn 2:21Pe 3:18Isa 53:101Ti 2:5-6Zec 13:7 I have other sheep which are not of this fold. 2 I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. Isa 56:8Jhn 11:521Pe 2:25Ezk 34:23Eph 2:13-18Ezk 37:241Pe 2:10Jhn 6:37 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, 3that I may take it again. Jhn 10:18Jhn 10:15Heb 2:9Jhn 10:11Isa 53:7-12Jhn 15:9-10Jhn 17:4-5Isa 42:1 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.” Heb 2:9Tit 2:14Jhn 10:17Jhn 2:19-21Jhn 14:31Heb 5:6-9Isa 53:10-12Jhn 6:38
Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words. Jhn 9:161Co 3:3Jhn 7:40-43Act 14:4Act 23:7-101Co 11:18Luk 12:51-53Mat 10:34-35 Many of them said, “He has a demon and is insane! Why do you listen to him?” Jhn 7:20Mrk 3:21Jhn 8:52Jhn 8:47-48Act 18:14-15Act 25:19-20Act 26:24Act 26:30-32 Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?” 4 Exo 4:11Isa 35:5-6Mat 11:5Psa 94:9Exo 8:19Jhn 9:32-33Jhn 9:6Mat 4:24
It was the Feast of the Dedication 5 at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. Act 3:11Act 5:12 The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” Jhn 1:19Luk 22:67-701Ki 18:21Jhn 8:25Jhn 8:53Mat 11:32Co 3:12Jhn 16:25
Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. Jhn 10:38Jhn 8:58Heb 2:3Jhn 14:11Jhn 5:17-43Act 10:38Jhn 10:32Jhn 11:47 But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. Jhn 8:472Co 4:3-4Jhn 10:27Jhn 12:37-40Jhn 6:65Rom 11:7-81Jn 4:6Jhn 10:4 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. Jhn 10:16Jhn 10:141Co 8:3Rev 3:20Jhn 10:3-4Heb 3:7Jhn 5:25Jhn 8:12 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. Jhn 6:39-40Jhn 6:37Jhn 3:15-16Heb 7:25Jhn 18:9Rom 8:29Isa 54:17Php 1:6 My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. Jhn 6:37Jhn 17:2Jhn 17:9Jhn 14:28Jhn 17:6Mal 1:14Jhn 17:11Exo 18:11 I and the Father are one.” Jhn 1:1-2Jhn 14:9Jhn 17:21-23Jhn 5:23Jhn 8:58Mat 11:27Mat 28:19Jhn 5:17
Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jhn 5:18Jhn 8:591Sa 30:6Exo 17:4Jhn 11:8Act 7:52Act 7:58-59Mat 21:35 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?” 1Jn 3:121Sa 19:4-62Ch 24:20-22Act 10:38Act 2:22Ecc 4:4Jhn 10:37Jhn 5:19-20
The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” Jhn 5:18Jhn 10:30Lev 24:16Php 2:6Psa 82:6Rom 13:11Ki 21:10Lev 24:14
Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 6 Psa 82:6-7Exo 7:1Psa 82:1Exo 4:16Psa 138:1Exo 22:28Jhn 12:34Jhn 8:17 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken), Mat 24:35Rom 13:1Gen 15:1Luk 16:17Luk 24:44-46Act 1:16Jhn 19:36-37Mat 26:53-56 do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? Jhn 3:17Jer 1:5Jhn 5:17-18Jhn 10:30-33Jhn 20:28Jhn 20:31Jhn 6:27Isa 61:1-3 If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. Jhn 15:24Jhn 10:25Jhn 10:32Jhn 12:37-40Jhn 14:10Jhn 5:31Mat 11:20-24 But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” Jhn 10:30Jhn 14:20Jhn 10:25Jhn 14:9-11Act 2:22Jhn 17:21-23Jhn 3:2Act 4:8-12
They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand. Jhn 7:30Jhn 8:59Jhn 7:44Luk 4:29-30Jhn 10:31 He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and he stayed there. Jhn 1:28Jhn 11:54Jhn 3:26Jhn 7:1 Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.” Jhn 1:33-34Jhn 1:29-30Jhn 1:27Jhn 2:11Jhn 3:26-36Luk 12:1Luk 5:1Luk 7:26-30 Many believed in him there. Jhn 4:41Jhn 12:42Jhn 11:45Jhn 2:23Jhn 4:39Jhn 7:31Jhn 8:30