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The Bible – New Testament

Saint John

Chapter 10

1 ¹ ² «Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber.

2 But whoever enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.

3 The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice, as he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

4 ³ When he has driven out all his own, he walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they recognize his voice.

5 But they will not follow a stranger; they will run away from him, because they do not recognize the voice of strangers.»

6 Although Jesus used this figure of speech, ⁴ they did not realize what he was trying to tell them.

7 ⁵ So Jesus said again, «Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the gate for the sheep.

8 ⁶ All who came [before me] are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

9 I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture.

10 A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy; I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.

11 I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

12 A hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf catches and scatters them.

13 This is because he works for pay and has no concern for the sheep.

14 I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me,

15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I will lay down my life for the sheep.

16 I have other sheep ⁷ that do not belong to this fold. These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd.

17 This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.

18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again. ⁸ This command I have received from my Father.»

19 Again there was a division among the Jews because of these words.

20 Many of them said, «He is possessed and out of his mind; why listen to him?»

21 Others said, «These are not the words of one possessed; surely a demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can he?»

22 The feast of the Dedication ⁹ was then taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter.

23 ¹⁰ And Jesus walked about in the temple area on the Portico of Solomon.

24 So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, «How long are you going to keep us in suspense? ¹¹ If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.»

25 Jesus answered them, «I told you ¹² and you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify to me.

26 But you do not believe, because you are not among my sheep.

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

28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. No one can take them out of my hand.

29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, ¹³ and no one can take them out of the Father’s hand.

30 ¹⁴ The Father and I are one.»

31 The Jews again picked up rocks to stone him.

32 Jesus answered them, «I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these are you trying to stone me?»

33 The Jews answered him, «We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God.»

34 ¹⁵ Jesus answered them, «Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, «You are gods»‘?

35 If it calls them gods to whom the word of God came, and scripture cannot be set aside,

36 can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated ¹⁶ and sent into the world blasphemes because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

37 If I do not perform my Father’s works, do not believe me;

38 but if I perform them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may realize (and understand) that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.»

39 (Then) they tried again to arrest him; but he escaped from their power.

40 He went back across the Jordan to the place where John first baptized, and there he remained.

41 Many came to him and said, «John performed no sign, ¹⁷ but everything John said about this man was true.»

42 And many there began to believe in him.

1 [1-21] The good shepherd discourse continues the theme of attack on the Pharisees that ends John 9. The figure is allegorical: the hired hands are the Pharisees who excommunicated the cured blind man. It serves as a commentary on John 9. For the shepherd motif, used of Yahweh in the Old Testament, cf Exodus 34; ⇒ Genesis 48:15; ⇒ 49:24; ⇒ Micah 7:14; ⇒ Psalm 23:1-4; ⇒ 80:1.

2 [1] Sheepfold: a low stone wall open to the sky.

3 [4] Recognize his voice: the Pharisees do not recognize Jesus, but the people of God, symbolized by the blind man, do.

4 [6] Figure of speech: John uses a different word for illustrative speech than the «parable» of the synoptics, but the idea is similar.

5 [7-10] In ⇒ John 10:7-8, the figure is of a gate for the shepherd to come to the sheep; in ⇒ John 10:9-10, the figure is of a gate for the sheep to come in and go out.

6 [8] [Before me]: these words are omitted in many good early manuscripts and versions.

7 [16] Other sheep: the Gentiles, possibly a reference to «God’s dispersed children» of ⇒ John 11:52 destined to be gathered into one, or «apostolic Christians» at odds with the community of the beloved disciple.

8 [18] Power to take it up again: contrast the role of the Father as the efficient cause of the resurrection in ⇒ Acts 2:24; ⇒ 4:10; etc.; ⇒ Romans 1:4; ⇒ 4:24. Yet even here is added: This command I have received from my Father.

9 [22] Feast of the Dedication: an eight-day festival of lights (Hebrew, Hanukkah) held in December, three months after the feast of Tabernacles (⇒ John 7:2), to celebrate the Maccabees’ rededication of the altar and reconsecration of the temple in 164 B.C., after their desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (⇒ Daniel 8:13; ⇒ 9:27; cf ⇒ 1 Macc 4:36-59; ⇒ 2 Macc 1:18-⇒ 2:19; ⇒ 10:1-8).

10 [23] Portico of Solomon: on the east side of the temple area, offering protection against the cold winds from the desert.

11 [24] Keep us in suspense: literally, «How long will you take away our life?» Cf ⇒ John 11:48-50. If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly: cf ⇒ Luke 22:67. This is the climax of Jesus’ encounters with the Jewish authorities. There has never yet been an open confession before them.

12 [25] I told you: probably at ⇒ John 8:25 which was an evasive answer.

13 [29] The textual evidence for the first clause is very divided; it may also be translated: «As for the Father, what he has given me is greater than all,» or «My Father is greater than all, in what he has given me.»

14 [30] This is justification for ⇒ John 10:29; it asserts unity of power and reveals that the words and deeds of Jesus are the words and deeds of God.

15 [34] This is a reference to the judges of Israel who,since they exercised the divine prerogative to judge (⇒ Deut 1:17), were called «gods»; cf ⇒ Exodus 21:6, besides ⇒ Psalm 82:6 from which the quotation comes.

16 [36] Consecrated: this may be a reference to the rededicated altar at the Hanukkah feast; see the note on ⇒ John 10:22.

17 [41] Performed no sign: this is to stress the inferior role of John the Baptist. The Transjordan topography recalls the great witness of John the Baptist to Jesus, as opposed to the hostility of the authorities in Jerusalem.

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The Bible – New Testament

Saint John

Chapter 13

1 ¹ ² ³ Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end.

2 The devil had already induced ⁴ Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over. So, during supper,

3 fully aware that the Father had put everything into his power and that he had come from God and was returning to God,

4 he rose from supper and took off his outer garments. He took a towel and tied it around his waist.

5 ⁵ Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and dry them with the towel around his waist.

6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, «Master, are you going to wash my feet?»

7 Jesus answered and said to him, «What I am doing, you do not understand now, but you will understand later.»

8 Peter said to him, «You will never wash my feet.» Jesus answered him, «Unless I wash you, you will have no inheritance with me.»

9 Simon Peter said to him, «Master, then not only my feet, but my hands and head as well.»

10 Jesus said to him, «Whoever has bathed ⁶ has no need except to have his feet washed, for he is clean all over; so you are clean, but not all.»

11 For he knew who would betray him; for this reason, he said, «Not all of you are clean.»

12 So when he had washed their feet (and) put his garments back on and reclined at table again, he said to them, «Do you realize what I have done for you?

13 You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’ and rightly so, for indeed I am.

14 If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet.

15 I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do.

16 Amen, amen, I say to you, no slave is greater than his master nor any messenger ⁷ greater than the one who sent him.

17 If you understand this, blessed are you if you do it.

18 I am not speaking of all of you. I know those whom I have chosen. But so that the scripture might be fulfilled, ‘The one who ate my food has raised his heel against me.’

19 From now on I am telling you before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I AM.

20 Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.»

21 When he had said this, Jesus was deeply troubled and testified, «Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.»

22 The disciples looked at one another, at a loss as to whom he meant.

23 One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, ⁸ was reclining at Jesus’ side.

24 So Simon Peter nodded to him to find out whom he meant.

25 He leaned back against Jesus’ chest and said to him, «Master, who is it?»

26 Jesus answered, «It is the one to whom I hand the morsel ⁹ after I have dipped it.» So he dipped the morsel and (took it and) handed it to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot.

27 After he took the morsel, Satan entered him. So Jesus said to him, «What you are going to do, do quickly.»

28 (Now) none of those reclining at table realized why he said this to him.

29 Some thought that since Judas kept the money bag, Jesus had told him, «Buy what we need for the feast,» or to give something to the poor.

30 So he took the morsel and left at once. And it was night.

31 ¹⁰ ¹¹ When he had left, Jesus said, «Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.

32 (If God is glorified in him,) God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him at once.

33 My children, I will be with you only a little while longer. You will look for me, and as I told the Jews, ‘Where I go you cannot come,’ so now I say it to you.

34 I give you a new commandment: ¹² love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.

35 This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.»

36 Simon Peter said to him, «Master, where are you going?» Jesus answered (him), «Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, though you will follow later.»

37 Peter said to him, «Master, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.»

38 Jesus answered, «Will you lay down your life for me? Amen, amen, I say to you, the cock will not crow before you deny me three times.»

1 [⇒ 13:1-⇒ 19:42] The Book of Glory. There is a major break here; the word «sign» is used again only in ⇒ John 20:30. In this phase of Jesus’ return to the Father, the discourses (John 13-17) precede the traditional narrative of the passion (John 18-20) to interpret them for the Christian reader. This is the only extended example of esoteric teaching of disciples in John.

2 [1-20] Washing of the disciples’ feet. This episode occurs in John at the place of the narration of the institution of the Eucharist in the synoptics. It may be a dramatization of ⇒ Luke 22:27 – «I am your servant.» It is presented as a «model» («pattern») of the crucifixion. It symbolizes cleansing from sin by sacrificial death.

3 [1] Before the feast of Passover: this would be Thursday evening, before the day of preparation; in the synoptics, the Last Supper is a Passover meal taking place, in John’s chronology, on Friday evening. To the end: or, «completely.»

4 [2] Induced: literally, «The devil put into the heart that Judas should hand him over.»

5 [5] The act of washing another’s feet was one that could not be required of the lowliest Jewish slave. It is an allusion to the humiliating death of the crucifixion.

6 [10] Bathed: many have suggested that this passage is a symbolic reference to baptism. The Greek root involved is used in baptismal contexts in ⇒ 1 Cor 6:11; ⇒ Eph 5:26; ⇒ Titus 3:5; ⇒ Hebrews 10:22.

7 [16] Messenger: the Greek has apostolos, the only occurrence of the term in John. It is not used in the technical sense here.

8 [23] The one whom Jesus loved: also mentioned in ⇒ John 19:26; ⇒ 20:2; ⇒ 21:7. A disciple, called «another disciple» or «the other disciple,» is mentioned in ⇒ John 18:15 and ⇒ John 20:2; in the latter reference he is identified with the disciple whom Jesus loved. There is also an unnamed disciple in ⇒ John 1:35-40; see the note on ⇒ John 1:37.

9 [26] Morsel: probably the bitter herb dipped in salt water.

10 [⇒ 13:31-⇒ 17:26] Two farewell discourses and a prayer. These seem to be Johannine compositions, including sayings of Jesus at the Last Supper and on other occasions, modeled on similar farewell discourses in Greek literature and the Old Testament (of Moses, Joshua, David).

11 [31-38] Introduction: departure and return. Terms of coming and going predominate. These verses form an introduction to the last discourse of Jesus, which extends through John 14-17. In it John has collected Jesus’ words to his own (⇒ John 13:1). There are indications that several speeches have been fused together, e.g., in ⇒ John 14:31 and ⇒ John 17:1.

12 [34] I give you a new commandment: this puts Jesus on a par with Yahweh. The commandment itself is not new; cf ⇒ Lev 19:18 and the note there.

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The Bible – New Testament

Saint John

Chapter 10

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1 2 «Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber.

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But whoever enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.

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The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice, as he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

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3 When he has driven out all his own, he walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they recognize his voice.

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But they will not follow a stranger; they will run away from him, because they do not recognize the voice of strangers.»

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Although Jesus used this figure of speech, 4 they did not realize what he was trying to tell them.

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5 So Jesus said again, «Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the gate for the sheep.

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6 All who came [before me] are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

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I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture.

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A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy; I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.

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I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

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A hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf catches and scatters them.

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This is because he works for pay and has no concern for the sheep.

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I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me,

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just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I will lay down my life for the sheep.

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I have other sheep 7 that do not belong to this fold. These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd.

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This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.

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No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again. 8 This command I have received from my Father.»

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Again there was a division among the Jews because of these words.

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Many of them said, «He is possessed and out of his mind; why listen to him?»

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Others said, «These are not the words of one possessed; surely a demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can he?»

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The feast of the Dedication 9 was then taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter.

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10 And Jesus walked about in the temple area on the Portico of Solomon.

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So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, «How long are you going to keep us in suspense? 11 If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.»

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Jesus answered them, «I told you 12 and you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify to me.

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But you do not believe, because you are not among my sheep.

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

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I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. No one can take them out of my hand.

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My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, 13 and no one can take them out of the Father’s hand.

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14 The Father and I are one.»

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The Jews again picked up rocks to stone him.

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Jesus answered them, «I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these are you trying to stone me?»

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The Jews answered him, «We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God.»

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15 Jesus answered them, «Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, «You are gods»‘?

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If it calls them gods to whom the word of God came, and scripture cannot be set aside,

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can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated 16 and sent into the world blasphemes because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

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If I do not perform my Father’s works, do not believe me;

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but if I perform them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may realize (and understand) that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.»

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¹ ² «Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber.

³ When he has driven out all his own, he walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they recognize his voice.

Although Jesus used this figure of speech, ⁴ they did not realize what he was trying to tell them.

⁵ So Jesus said again, «Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the gate for the sheep.

⁶ All who came [before me] are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

I have other sheep ⁷ that do not belong to this fold. These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd.

No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again. ⁸ This command I have received from my Father.»

The feast of the Dedication ⁹ was then taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter.

¹⁰ And Jesus walked about in the temple area on the Portico of Solomon.

So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, «How long are you going to keep us in suspense? ¹¹ If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.»

Jesus answered them, «I told you ¹² and you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify to me.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, ¹³ and no one can take them out of the Father’s hand.

¹⁴ The Father and I are one.»

¹⁵ Jesus answered them, «Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, «You are gods»‘?

can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated ¹⁶ and sent into the world blasphemes because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

Many came to him and said, «John performed no sign, ¹⁷ but everything John said about this man was true.»

¹ ² ³ Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end.

The devil had already induced ⁴ Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over. So, during supper,