John 10

A Story about Sheep

¹Jesus said:

⁶Jesus told the people this story. But they did not understand what he was talking about.

Jesus Is the Good Shepherd

⁷Jesus said:

¹⁹The people took sides because of what Jesus had told them.

²⁰Many of them said, “He has a demon in him! He is crazy! Why listen to him?”

²¹But others said, “How could anyone with a demon in him say these things? No one like this could give sight to a blind person!”

Jesus Is Rejected

²²That winter, Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Temple Festival.[#1 Macc 4.36,52-59; 2 Macc 1.18; 10.5.]

²³One day he was walking in the part of the temple known as Solomon's Porch,[#10.23 A public place with tall columns along the east side of the temple.]

²⁴and the people gathered all around him. They said, “How long are you going to keep us guessing? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly!”

²⁵Jesus answered:

³¹Once again the people picked up stones in order to kill Jesus.

³²But he said, “I have shown you many good things my Father sent me to do. Which one are you going to stone me for?”

³³They answered, “We are not stoning you because of any good thing you did. We are stoning you because you did a terrible thing. You are just a man, and here you are claiming to be God!”

³⁴Jesus replied:[#Ps 82.6.]

³⁹Again they wanted to arrest Jesus. But he escaped

⁴⁰and crossed the Jordan to the place where John had earlier been baptizing. While Jesus was there,[#Jn 1.28.]

⁴¹many people came to him. They were saying, “John didn't work any miracles, but everything he said about Jesus is true.”

⁴²A lot of those people also put their faith in Jesus.