8. All who came before me were 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 come in and go out, and find pasture.
10. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may 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 a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.
13. Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away.
14. “I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me –