And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 'Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. This command I have received from My Father.” I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. And other sheep I have which are not of this fold them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice and there will be one flock and one shepherd. As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father and I lay down My life for the sheep. I am the good shepherd and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. Then Jesus said to them again, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. Playlist: Go to the Jesus Christ as the Good Shepherd (topic) playlist
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