--- title: "John 10 — World English Bible | Favorite Scriptures" description: "Read John 10 in the World English Bible. Free Bible reading, no account needed. Browse books and chapters, then save favorite passages in your personal library." last_updated: "2026-10-08" doc_version: "1" language: "en" canonical: "https://favoritescriptures.com/bible/john/10" --- [Home](/)/[Bible](/bible)/[John](/bible/john)/10 World English Bible # John 10 [1](#verse-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. [2](#verse-2) But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. [3](#verse-3) The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. [4](#verse-4) Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. [5](#verse-5) They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.” [6](#verse-6) Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them. [7](#verse-7) Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door. [8](#verse-8) All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. [9](#verse-9) I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and will find pasture. [10](#verse-10) The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. [11](#verse-11) “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. [12](#verse-12) He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them. [13](#verse-13) The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care for the sheep. [14](#verse-14) I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; [15](#verse-15) even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. [16](#verse-16) I have other sheep which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. [17](#verse-17) Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. [18](#verse-18) No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.” [19](#verse-19) Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words. [20](#verse-20) Many of them said, “He has a demon and is insane! Why do you listen to him?” [21](#verse-21) Others 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](#verse-22) It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem. [23](#verse-23) It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. [24](#verse-24) The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” [25](#verse-25) Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. [26](#verse-26) But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. [27](#verse-27) My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. [28](#verse-28) I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. [29](#verse-29) My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. [30](#verse-30) I and the Father are one.” [31](#verse-31) Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone him. [32](#verse-32) Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?” [33](#verse-33) The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” [34](#verse-34) Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? [35](#verse-35) If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken), [36](#verse-36) do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? [37](#verse-37) If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. [38](#verse-38) But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” [39](#verse-39) They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand. [40](#verse-40) He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and he stayed there. [41](#verse-41) Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.” [42](#verse-42) Many believed in him there. [← John 9](/bible/john/9)[John 11 →](/bible/john/11) World English Bible · Public domain ## Keep what speaks to you. Create a free library to save passages, highlight verses, and keep your study notes together. [Start your free library](/login?mode=signup) ## Sitemap See the [complete sitemap](/sitemap.md).