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stranger; they will run from him because they
don’t know his voice.”
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Those who heard Jesus use this illustration
didn’t understand what he meant, 7so he explained it to them: “I tell you the truth, I am the
gate for the sheep. 8All who came before me*
were thieves and robbers. But the true sheep
did not listen to them. 9Yes, I am the gate.
Those who come in through me will be saved.*
They will come and go freely and will find good
pastures. 10The thief’s purpose is to steal and
kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a
rich and satisfying life.
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“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep. 12A hired
hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He
will abandon the sheep because they don’t belong to him and he isn’t their shepherd. And
so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock.
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The hired hand runs away because he’s working only for the money and doesn’t really care
about the sheep.
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“I am the good shepherd; I know my own
sheep, and they know me, 15just as my Father
knows me and I know the Father. So I sacrifice
my life for the sheep. 16I have other sheep, too,
that are not in this sheepfold. I must bring them
also. They will listen to my voice, and there will
be one flock with one shepherd.
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“The Father loves me because I sacrifice my
life so I may take it back again. 18No one can
take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily.
For I have the authority to lay it down when I
want to and also to take it up again. For this is
what my Father has commanded.”
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When he said these things, the people*
were again divided in their opinions about him.
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Some said, “He’s demon possessed and out
of his mind. Why listen to a man like that?”
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Others said, “This doesn’t sound like a man
possessed by a demon! Can a demon open the
eyes of the blind?”
JESUS CLAIMS TO BE THE SON OF GOD 22It
was now winter, and Jesus was in Jerusalem at
the time of Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication. 23He was in the Temple, walking through
the section known as Solomon’s Colonnade.
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The people surrounded him and asked, “How
long are you going to keep us in suspense? If
you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”
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Jesus replied, “I have already told you, and
10:8 Some manuscripts do not include before me. 10:9 Or will find
safety. 10:19 Greek Jewish people; also in 10:24, 31. 10:29 Other
manuscripts read for what my Father has given me is more powerful
than anything; still others read for regarding that which my Father
has given me, he is greater than all. 10:34a Greek your own law.
10:34b Ps 82:6. 11:2 This incident is recorded in chapter 12.
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you don’t believe me. The proof is the work I do
in my Father’s name. 26But you don’t believe
me because you are not my sheep. 27My sheep
listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28I give them eternal life, and they will
never perish. No one can snatch them away
from me, 29for my Father has given them to me,
and he is more powerful than anyone else.* No
one can snatch them from the Father’s hand.
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The Father and I are one.”
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Once again the people picked up stones to
kill him. 32Jesus said, “At my Father’s direction I
have done many good works. For which one are
you going to stone me?”
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They replied, “We’re stoning you not for
any good work, but for blasphemy! You, a mere
man, claim to be God.”
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Jesus replied, “It is written in your own
Scriptures* that God said to certain leaders of
the people, ‘I say, you are gods!’* 35And you
know that the Scriptures cannot be altered. So
if those people who received God’s message
were called ‘gods,’ 36why do you call it blasphemy when I say, ‘I am the Son of God’? After
all, the Father set me apart and sent me into
the world. 37Don’t believe me unless I carry out
my Father’s work. 38But if I do his work, believe
in the evidence of the miraculous works I have
done, even if you don’t believe me. Then you
will know and understand that the Father is in
me, and I am in the Father.”
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Once again they tried to arrest him, but he
got away and left them. 40He went beyond the
Jordan River near the place where John was first
baptizing and stayed there awhile. 41And many
followed him. “John didn’t perform miraculous
signs,” they remarked to one another, “but
everything he said about this man has come
true.” 42And many who were there believed in
Jesus.
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THE RAISING OF LAZARUS A man
named Lazarus was sick. He lived in
Bethany with his sisters, Mary and Martha.
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This is the Mary who later poured the expensive perfume on the Lord’s feet and wiped
them with her hair.* Her brother, Lazarus,
was sick. 3So the two sisters sent a message
SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS
(10:24-29) These leaders were waiting for the evidence
they thought would convince them that Jesus was the
Savior whom God had promised to send. Thus they
couldn’t accept the truth Jesus offered. Spiritual blindness
like this still keeps people away from Jesus. They want
him on their own terms—not his. Know anyone like that?
Are you like that? Spiritual blindness has only one cure:
a sincere desire to believe.
