Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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1 In truth I tell you, whoever does not go into
the sheepfold through the door, but climbs up at
some other place, that man is a thief and a robber;
2 but
the man who goes in through the door is shepherd to the
sheep.
3 For him the watchman opens the door; and the sheep
listen to his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and
leads them out.
4 When he has brought them all out, he walks
in front of them, and his sheep follow him, because they know
his voice.
5 They will not follow a stranger, but will run away
from him; because they do not know a stranger's voice.”
6 This was the allegory that Jesus told them, but they did not
understand of what he was speaking.
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7 So he continued:
8 “In truth I tell you, I am the Door for the sheep. All who
came before me were thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not
listen to them. note
9 I am the Door; he who goes in through me will
be safe, and he will go in and out and find pasture.
10 The thief
comes only to steal, to kill, and to destroy; I have come that they
may have Life, and may have it in greater fulness. ⪆⪆
11 I
am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down his
life for his sheep.
12 The hired man who is not a shepherd, and
who does not own the sheep, when he sees a wolf coming,
leaves them and runs away; then the wolf seizes them, and
scatters the flock.
13 He does this because he is only a hired
man and does not care about the sheep.
14 I am the Good
Shepherd; and I know my sheep, and my sheep know
15 me—just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—
and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 I have other sheep
besides, which do not belong to this fold; I must lead them
also, and they will listen to my voice; and they shall become
one flock under ‘one Shepherd.’ note
17 This is why the Father loves
me, because I lay down my life—to receive it again.
18 No
one took it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have
authority to lay it down, and I have authority to receive it
again. This is the command which I received from my
Father.”
19 In consequence of these words a difference of opinion again
arose among the Jews.
20 Many of them said: “He is possessed
by a demon and is mad; why do you listen to him?”
21 Others
said: “This is not the teaching of one who is possessed by a
demon. Can a demon give sight to the blind?”
note
22 Soon after this the Festival of the Re-dedication
was held at Jerusalem. note
23 It was winter; and Jesus
was walking in the Temple Courts, in the Colonnade
of Solomon,
24 when the Jews gathered round him, and said:
“How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you
are the Christ, tell us so frankly.”
25 “I have told you so,” replied Jesus, “and you do not believe
me. The work that I am doing in my Father's name bears
testimony to me.
26 But you do not believe me, because you are
not of my flock.
27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them,
and they follow me;
28 and I give them Immortal Life, and they
shall not be lost; nor shall any one snatch them out of my hands.
29 What my Father has entrusted to me is more than all else;
and no one can snatch anything out of the Father's hands.
30 The Father and I are one.”
31 The Jews again brought stones to throw at him; and seeing
this,
32 Jesus said:
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“I have done before your eyes many good actions, inspired
by the Father; for which of them would you stone me?”
33 “It is not for any good action that we would stone you,”
answered the Jews, “but for blasphemy; and because you, who
are only a man, make yourself out to be God.”
34 “Are there not,” replied Jesus, “these words in your Law—
‘I said “Ye are gods”’? note
35 If those to whom God's words were addressed were said to be
36 ‘gods’—and Scripture cannot be set aside—do you say of one
whom the Father has consecrated and sent as his Messenger to
the world ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said ‘I am God's
Son’?
37 If I am not doing the work that my Father is doing,
do not believe me;
38 but, if I am doing it, even though you do
not believe me, believe what that work shows; so that you may
understand, and understand more and more clearly, that the
Father is in union with me, and I with the Father.”
39 Upon this the Jews again sought to arrest him; but he escaped
their hands.
note
40 Then Jesus again crossed the Jordan to the
place where John used to baptize at first, and
stayed there some time,
41 during which many
people came to see him.
“John gave no sign of his mission,” they said; “but everything
that he said about this man was true.”
42 And many learnt to believe in Jesus there.
Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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