Yahuchanan Ten
1 “Truly, truly, I say to you: he who doesn’t enter into the sheepfold by the door, but gains access some other way, is a thief and a robber;
2 “But he who does enter by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3
“To him, the warden opens; and the sheep recognize his voice; and he
calls his sheep by their names, and he leads them out.
4 “And as he is leading his sheep to pasture, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.
5 They will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they don’t recognize the voice of strangers.”
6
Y’shua shared this parable with them, but they didn’t understand the
implications. They understood only that he was talking to them about
sheep and their shepherd.
7 Yahushua therefore clarified the teaching, saying, “Truly! Truly I say to you that I am the Door through which the sheep must pass.
8 “All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, and the sheep did not recognize them.
9 “I am the Door. If any man enter in by me, he will be saved; and he shall go in and out, finding pasture.
10
“Thieves come for no other purpose, but to steal, to kill, and to
destroy. I have come that they might have
Life, and that they might
have greater abundance in
their spiritual lives.
11 “I am the good shepherd, and the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep;
12 “But he who works for wages is
not the shepherd. The sheep are not
his; and when he sees the wolf coming, he leaves the sheep and
flees, allowing the wolf to take its prey and scatter the flock.
13 “The hireling runs because he works for money, not for the sheep! He doesn’t care about the sheep!
14 “I’m the good shepherd! I know my sheep, and I am known by them:
15
“As the Father knows me,
even so I know the Father;
and I lay down my Life on behalf of the sheep.
16
“And I have other sheep, which are not of
this fold: them, also, I
must bring. And all I bring with me shall hear my voice; and there
will be one fold, and one shepherd.
17
“For this reason my Father loves me: because
I lay down my Life, that I might take it up again.
18
“Nobody
takes life from me; I lay it down of my own free will. I have the
power to lay it down, and
I have power to take it up
again! I have received this injunction from my Father.”
19
These sayings brought yet more division
among the Yehudim!
20 Many of them said,
“He has a demon, and it’s driven him mad! Why do you even
listen to him?”
21 Others defended him, saying, “These aren’t words of a man
possessed by a demon! Can a demon open the eyes of a man who is
blind?”
22
After this, Chanukkah
hknj drew near, the winter feast for consecration.
23 Y’shua, having come again to Yerushaliem, was walking in the
temple colonnade associated with King Shlomo;
24 And a group
of Yehudim accosted him, encircling him, round about. They demanded
proofs of Y’shua with challenging voices, pressing him relentlessly,
“How long will you leave us in
doubt!? If you are HaMashiyach, tell us plainly!”
25 Yahushua answered
them, “I told you already, and you didn’t believe. The works I
perform in my Father’s name,
they bear witness of me;
26 “And you
can’t believe because you aren’t of my flock, as I said.
27
“My sheep hear my voice. I
know them, and they follow
me.
28
“I give them everlasting Life; and they
shall never perish,
neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
29 “My Father, who
gave me to them, is greater than
all; and no man is able to
pluck them out of my Father’s
hand!
30
I and my Father are
One!”
31
A second time, the Yehudim took up
stones with which to stone Y’shua,
32 But Y’shua
withstood them using the faculty of reason: “I’ve shown you
many good works from my Father. For
which of those works would you stone me?”
33 The Yehudim answered, saying, “It’s not for any good
work we’re going to stone
you, but for blasphemy:
it’s that you, being a man, make yourself HaShem.”
34 Yahushua
answered them, “Is it not written in your Torah, ‘I said, you are
gods?’
35
“If he called them elohim, unto whom the Word of HaShem came (and
the scripture cannot be broken),
36 “Why do you say of him who the Father has sanctified and sent
into the world, that he blasphemes because he says he is the
Projection of Elohim?
37 “If I don’t
perform the works of my Father, don’t believe me.
38 But if I
do, and you still don’t
believe me, believe the works!
Measure: understand them,
that you may know and believe
that Father is in me, and I in him!”
39
For this saying they would have arrested
Y’shua; but, again, he escaped out of their hand
40
And went away again, taking refuge beyond
Yardan at Beit-Abarah, the ferry house near the place by which
Yahuchanan had first baptized; and there he remained there, stayed;
41
And, there, he taught; and many reached
congruence with his teachings, there, saying that the prophet
Yahuchanan may not have performed miracles, but that everything he
had said concerning this
man was true.
42
And many, each in the solitude of his own soul, believed on him
in that place, and in that time.
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