The Gospel according to S. John. Chapter 10

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CHAP. X.

1 Christ is the doore and the good Shepheard. 19 Diuers opinions of him. 24 He proueth by his workes, that he is Christ the Sonne of God, 39 Escapeth the Iewes, 40 and went againe beyond Iordane, where many beleeued on him.

¹Uerily, verily I say vnto you, He that entreth not by þ^e doore into the sheepefold, but climeth vp some other way, the same is a theefe, and a robber.

²But hee that entreth in by the doore, is the shepherd of the sheepe.

³To him the porter openeth, and the sheepe heare his voyce, and he calleth his owne sheepe by name, and leadeth them out.

⁴And when he putteth foorth his owne sheepe, he goeth before them, and the sheepe follow him: for they know his voyce.

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

⁶This parable spake Iesus vnto them: but they vnderstood not what things they were which he spake vnto them.

⁷Then said Iesus vnto them againe, Uerily, verily I say vnto you, I am the doore of the sheepe.

⁸All that euer came before me, are theeues and robbers: but the sheepe did not heare them.

⁹I am the doore by me if any man enter in, he shall be saued, and shall goe in and out, and find pasture.

¹⁰The theefe commeth not, but for to steale and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might haue life, and that they might haue it more abundantly.

¹¹I am the good shepheard: the good shepheard giueth his life for the sheepe.¹¹

¹²But hee that is an hireling and not the shepheard, whose owne the sheepe are not, seeth the woolfe coming, and leaueth the sheep, and fleeth: and the woolfe catcheth them, and scattereth the sheepe.

¹³The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, & careth not for the sheepe.

¹⁴I am the good shepheard, and know my sheepe, and am knowen of mine.

¹⁵As the father knoweth me, euen so know I the father: & I lay downe my life for the sheepe.

¹⁶And other sheepe I haue, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall heare my voyce; and there shall be one fold, and one shepheard.¹⁶

¹⁷Therefore doth my father loue me, because I lay downe my life that I might take it againe.¹⁷

¹⁸No man taketh it from me, but I lay it downe of my selfe: I haue power to lay it downe, and I haue power to take it againe. This commandement haue I receiued of my father.¹⁸

¹⁹¶ There was a diuision therefore againe among the Iewes for these sayings.

²⁰And many of them said, He hath a deuill, and is mad, why heare ye him?

²¹Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a deuill. Can a deuill open the eyes of the blind?

²²¶ And it was at Hierusalem the feast of the dedication, & it was winter.²²

²³And Iesus walked in the temple in Solomons porch.

²⁴Then came the Iewes round about him, and said vnto him, How long doest thou make vs to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell vs plainely.²⁴

²⁵Iesus answered them, I told you, and ye beleeued not: the workes that I doe in my Fathers name, they beare witnesse of me.

²⁶But ye beleeue not, because ye are not of my sheepe, as I said vnto you.

²⁷My sheepe heare my voyce, and I know them, and they follow me.

²⁸And I giue vnto them eternall life, and they shall neuer perish, neither shall any man plucke them out of my hand.

²⁹My father which gaue them me, is greater then all: and no man is able to plucke them out of my fathers hand.

³⁰I and my father are one.

³¹Then the Iewes tooke vp stones againe to stone him.

³²Iesus answered them, Many good workes haue I shewed you from my Father; for which of those workes doe ye stone me?

³³The Iewes answered him, saying, For a good worke we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because that thou, being a man, makest thy selfe God.

³⁴Iesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods?³⁴

³⁵If hee called them gods, vnto whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken:

³⁶Say ye of him, whom the father hath sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Sonne of God?

³⁷If I doe not the workes of my Father, beleeue me not.

³⁸But if I doe, though yee beleeue not me, beleeue the works: that ye may know and beleeue that the Father is in me, and I in him.

³⁹Therefore they sought againe to take him: but hee escaped out of their hand,

⁴⁰And went away againe beyond Iordane, into the place where Iohn at first baptized: and there he abode.

⁴¹And many resorted vnto him, and said, Iohn did no miracle: but all things that Iohn spake of this man, were true.

⁴²And many beleeued on him there.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for John Chapter 10

¹¹ Esai.40.11. ezech. 34.23.
¹⁶ Esai.37. 22.
¹⁷ Esay.53. 7,8.
¹⁸ Acts 2.24.
²² 1.Macc.4. 59.
²⁴ Or, hold vs in suspence.
³⁴ Psal.82.6.

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