8. All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.
9. I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.
10. A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.
11. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
12. The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them.
13. This happens because he is a hired man and doesn’t care about the sheep.