6. יהושע used this figure of speech, but they did not know what He had been saying to them.
7. יהושע therefore 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 hear them.
9. “I am the door. Whoever enters through Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and shall go out and find pasture.
10. “The thief does not come except to steal, and to slaughter, and to destroy. I have come that they might possess life, and that they might possess it beyond measure.
11. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
12. “But the hireling, and not being a shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees. And the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.
13. “Now the hireling flees because he is a hireling and is not concerned about the sheep.
14. “I am the good shepherd. And I know Mine, and Mine know Me,
15. even as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.
16. “And other sheep I have which are not of this fold – I have to bring them as well, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.
17. “Because of this the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life, in order to receive it again.
18. “No one takes 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 command I have received from My Father.”