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Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.

The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.

I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.

As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.

Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.

Therefore there was a division again among the Jews because of these sayings.

But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

And many of them said, "He has a demon and is mad. Why do you listen to Him?"

Others said, "These are not the words of one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"

And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch.

To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.

Jesus answered them, "Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?"

The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."

Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods" '?

If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;

but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.

Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.

And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing at first, and there He stayed.

Then many came to Him and said, "John performed no sign, but all the things that John spoke about this Man were true."

And many believed in Him there.

Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.

Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.

All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

These things He said, and after that He said to them, "Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up."

Then His disciples said, "Lord, if he sleeps he will get well."

However, Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about taking rest in sleep.

Then Jesus said to them plainly, "Lazarus is dead.

And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that you may believe. Nevertheless let us go to him.

Then Thomas, who is called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with Him."

So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days.

Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away.

And many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met Him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

And when she had said these things, she went her way and secretly called Mary her sister, saying, "The Teacher has come and is calling for you."

As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly and came to Him.

who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, "Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick."

Now Jesus had not yet come into the town, but was in the place where Martha met Him.

Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there."

And He said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to Him, "Lord, come and see."

Jesus wept.

Then the Jews said, "See how He loved him!"