6. Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what He was telling them.
7. Then Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
8. All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
9. I am the door. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
10. The thief does not come, except to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
11. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
12. But he who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and runs away. So the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.
13. The hired hand runs away because he is a hired hand and does not care about the sheep.
14. “I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and am known by My own.
15. Even as the Father knows Me, so I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.
16. I have other sheep who are not of this fold. I must also bring them, and they will hear My voice. There will be one flock and one shepherd.
17. Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it up again.
18. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. I received this command from My Father.”