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Gospel of John, Chapter 10

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Chapter 10 of John—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is 1a thief and a robber.
  2. But he who enters by the door is 2a shepherd of the sheep.
  3. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear 3his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and 4leads them out.
  4. When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know 5his voice.
  5. A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know 6the voice of strangers.”
  6. This 7figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them.
  7. ¶ So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am 8the door of the sheep.
  8. All who came before Me are 9thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
  9. 10I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
  10. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they 11may have life, and [a]have it abundantly.
  11. ¶ “12I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd 13lays down His life for the sheep.
  12. He who is a hired hand, and not a 14shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.
  13. He flees because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep.
  14. 15I am the good shepherd, and 16I know My own and My own know Me,
  15. even as 17the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and 18I lay down My life for the sheep.
  16. I have 19other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become 20one flock with 21one shepherd.
  17. For this reason the Father loves Me, because I 22lay down My life so that I may take it again.
  18. 23No one has taken it away from Me, but I 24lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. 25This commandment I received from My Father.”
  19. 26A division occurred again among the Jews because of these words.
  20. Many of them were saying, “He 27has a demon and 28is insane. Why do you listen to Him?”
  21. Others were saying, “These are not the sayings of one 29demon-possessed. 30A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can he?”
  22. ¶ At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem;
  23. it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of 31Solomon.
  24. 32The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, “How long [b]will You keep us in suspense? If You are [c]the Christ, tell us 33plainly.”
  25. Jesus answered them, “34I told you, and you do not believe; 35the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me.
  26. But you do not believe because 36you are not of My sheep.
  27. My sheep 37hear My voice, and 38I know them, and they follow Me;
  28. and I give 39eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and 40no one will snatch them out of My hand.
  29. [d]My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
  30. 41I and the Father are [e]one.”
  31. ¶ The Jews 42picked up stones again to stone Him.
  32. Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?”
  33. The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for 43blasphemy; and because You, being a man, 44make Yourself out to be God.”
  34. Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in 45your 46Law, ‘47I SAID, YOU ARE GODS’?
  35. If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),
  36. do you say of Him, whom the Father 48sanctified and 49sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘50I am the Son of God’?
  37. 51If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
  38. but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe 52the works, so that you may [f]know and understand that 53the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.”
  39. Therefore 54they were seeking again to seize Him, and 55He eluded their grasp.
  40. ¶ And He went away 56again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He was staying there.
  41. Many came to Him and were saying, “While John performed no 57sign, yet 58everything John said about this man was true.”
  42. 59Many believed in Him there.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or have abundance
  2. ^ Lit do You lift up our soul
  3. ^ I.e. the Messiah
  4. ^ One early ms reads What My Father has given Me is greater than all
  5. ^ Or a unity; or one essence
  6. ^ Lit know and continue knowing

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Jn 10:8
  2. ^ Jn 10:11f
  3. ^ Jn 10:4f, 16, 27
  4. ^ Jn 10:9
  5. ^ Jn 10:5, 16, 27
  6. ^ Jn 10:4, 16, 27
  7. ^ Jn 16:25, 29; 2Pe 2:22
  8. ^ Jn 10:1f, 9
  9. ^ Je 23:1f; Eze 34:2ff; Jn 10:1
  10. ^ Jn 10:1f, 9
  11. ^ Jn 5:40
  12. ^ Is 40:11; Eze 34:11-16, 23; Jn 10:14; Heb 13:20; 1Pe 5:4; Re 7:17
  13. ^ Jn 10:15, 17, 18; 15:13; 1Jo 3:16
  14. ^ Jn 10:2
  15. ^ Jn 10:11
  16. ^ Jn 10:27
  17. ^ Mt 11:27; Lu 10:22
  18. ^ Jn 10:11, 17, 18
  19. ^ Is 56:8
  20. ^ Jn 11:52; 17:20f; Eph 2:13-18; 1Pe 2:25
  21. ^ Eze 34:23; 37:24
  22. ^ Jn 10:11, 15, 18
  23. ^ Mt 26:53; Jn 2:19; 5:26
  24. ^ Jn 10:11, 15, 17
  25. ^ Jn 14:31; 15:10; Pp 2:8; Heb 5:8
  26. ^ Jn 7:43; 9:16
  27. ^ Jn 7:20
  28. ^ Mr 3:21
  29. ^ Mt 4:24
  30. ^ Ex 4:11; Jn 9:32f
  31. ^ Ac 3:11; 5:12
  32. ^ Jn 1:19; 10:31, 33
  33. ^ Lu 22:67; Jn 16:25
  34. ^ Jn 8:56, 58
  35. ^ Jn 5:36; 10:38
  36. ^ Jn 8:47
  37. ^ Jn 10:4, 16
  38. ^ Jn 10:14
  39. ^ Jn 17:2f; 1Jo 2:25; 5:11
  40. ^ Jn 6:37, 39
  41. ^ Jn 17:21ff
  42. ^ Jn 8:59
  43. ^ Le 24:16
  44. ^ Jn 5:18
  45. ^ Jn 8:17
  46. ^ Jn 12:34; 15:25; Ro 3:19; 1Co 14:21
  47. ^ Ps 82:6
  48. ^ Je 1:5; Jn 6:69
  49. ^ Jn 3:17
  50. ^ Jn 5:17f; 10:30
  51. ^ Jn 10:25; 15:24
  52. ^ Jn 10:25; 14:11
  53. ^ Jn 14:10f, 20; 17:21, 23
  54. ^ Jn 7:30
  55. ^ Lu 4:30; Jn 8:59
  56. ^ Jn 1:28
  57. ^ Jn 2:11
  58. ^ Jn 1:27, 30, 34; 3:27-30
  59. ^ Jn 7:31

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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