Outline
I. Prologue: The Word Became Flesh (1:1-18)
The Beginning of Jesus' Ministry (1:19-51)
Changing Water into Wine (2:1-11)Cleansing the Temple (2:12-25)Jesus Teaches Nicodemus (3:1-21)John the Baptist's Final Testimony about Jesus (3:22-36)Jesus and the Samaritans (4:1-42)Healing of the Official's Son (4:43-54)Jesus' Visit to Jerusalem at an Annual Feast (ch. 5)Feeding the 5,000 and Jesus' Claim to Be the Bread of Life (ch. 6)Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles and Disputes over Who He Is (chs. 7-8)Healing of the Man Born Blind (ch. 9)- Jesus is the Good Shepherd (10:1-21)
- Conflict at the Feast of Dedication over Jesus' Identity (10:22-42)
The Raising of Lazarus (ch. 11)
Statement of the Gospel's Purpose (20:30-31)Epilogue: Jesus' Recommissioning of the Disciples (ch. 21)
John 10 NLT
1 “I tell you the truth, anyone who sneaks
over the wall of a sheepfold, rather than going through the gate, must surely
be a thief and a robber!
2 But the one who enters through the gate
is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him,
and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by
name and leads them out.
4 After he has gathered his own flock, he
walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice.
5 They won’t follow a stranger; they will
run from him because they don’t know his voice.”
6 Those who heard Jesus use this
illustration didn’t understand what he meant,
7 so he explained it to them: “I tell you
the truth, I am the gate for the sheep.
8 All who came before me were thieves and
robbers. But the true sheep did not listen to them.
9 Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in
through me will be saved. They will come and go freely and will find good
pastures.
10 The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill
and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.
11“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd
sacrifices his life for the sheep.
12 A hired hand will run when he sees a
wolf coming. He will abandon the sheep because they don’t belong to him and he
isn’t their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the
flock.
13 The hired hand runs away because he’s
working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep.
14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my own
sheep, and they know me,
15 just as my Father knows me and I know
the Father. So I sacrifice my life for the sheep.
16 I have other sheep, too, that are not in
this sheepfold. I must bring them also. They will listen to my voice, and there
will be one flock with one shepherd.
17 “The Father loves me because I sacrifice
my life so I may take it back again.
18 No one can take my life from me. I
sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want
to and also to take it up again. For this is what my Father has
commanded.”
19 When he said these things, the people
were again divided in their opinions about him.
20 Some said, “He’s demon possessed and out
of his mind. Why listen to a man like that?”
21 Others said, “This doesn’t sound like a
man possessed by a demon! Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
22 It was now winter, and Jesus was in
Jerusalem at the time of Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication.
23 He was in the Temple, walking through
the section known as Solomon’s Colonnade.
24 The people surrounded him and asked,
“How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us
plainly.”
25 Jesus replied, “I have already told you,
and you don’t believe me. The proof is the work I do in my Father’s name.
26 But you don’t believe me because you are
not my sheep.
27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know
them, and they follow me.
28 I give them eternal life, and they will
never perish. No one can snatch them away from me,
29 for my Father has given them to me, and
he is more powerful than anyone else. No one can snatch them from the Father’s
hand.
30 The Father and I are one.”
31 Once again the people picked up stones
to kill him.
32 Jesus said, “At my Father’s direction I
have done many good works. For which one are you going to stone me?”
33 They replied, “We’re stoning you not for
any good work, but for blasphemy! You, a mere man, claim to be God.”
34 Jesus replied, “It is written in your
own Scriptures that God said to certain leaders of the people, ‘I say, you are
gods!’
35 And you know that the Scriptures cannot
be altered. So if those people who received God’s message were called
‘gods,’
36 why do you call it blasphemy when I say,
‘I am the Son of God’? After all, the Father set me apart and sent me into the
world.
37 Don’t believe me unless I carry out my
Father’s work.
38 But if I do his work, believe in the
evidence of the miraculous works I have done, even if you don’t believe me. Then
you will know and understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the
Father.”
39Once again they tried to arrest him, but he
got away and left them.
40 He went beyond the Jordan River near the
place where John was first baptizing and stayed there awhile.
41 And many followed him. “John didn’t
perform miraculous signs,” they remarked to one another, “but everything he
said about this man has come true.”
42 And many who were there believed in
Jesus.
