Yochanan 10 - World Messianic Bible(WMB)

1 “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

2But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

3The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

4Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

5They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”

6Yeshua spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

7Yeshua therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.

8All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

9I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and will find pasture.

10The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

11 “I am the good shepherd.

19 Therefore a division arose again among the Judeans because of these words.

20Many of them said, “He has a demon and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”

21Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”

22 It was the Feast of Hanukkah at Jerusalem.

23It was winter, and Yeshua was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.

24The Judeans therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

25Yeshua answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.

26But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

29My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.

30I and the Father are one.”

31 Therefore the Judeans took up stones again to stone him.

32Yeshua answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”

33 The Judeans answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

34Yeshua answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’?

39 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

40He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where Yochanan was immersing at first, and he stayed there.

41Many came to him. They said, “Yochanan indeed did no sign, but everything that Yochanan said about this man is true.”

42Many believed in him there.