6. Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what it was that he was saying to them.
7. Then Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
8. All those who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep do not listen to them.
9. I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and will go out and will find pasture.
10. The thief comes only so that he can steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
11. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
12. The hired hand, who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf approaching and abandons the sheep and runs away—and the wolf seizes them and scatters them—
13. because he is a hired hand and he is not concerned about the sheep.
14. “I am the good shepherd, and I know my own, and my own know me,