1. Jesus said, “I am telling you the truth: the man who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
10. The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that you might have life — life in all its fullness.
11. “I am the good shepherd, who is willing to die for the sheep.
12. When the hired man, who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees a wolf coming, he leaves the sheep and runs away; so the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.
13. The hired man runs away because he is only a hired man and does not care about the sheep.
14-15. I am the good shepherd. As the Father knows me and I know the Father, in the same way I know my sheep and they know me. And I am willing to die for them.