THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN
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10:7. Jesus therefore said to them again: Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
10:8. All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and the sheep heard them not.
10:9. I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved: and he shall go in and go out, and shall find pastures.
10:10. The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that they may have life and may have it more abundantly.
10:11. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.
10:12. But the hireling and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and flieth: and the wolf casteth and scattereth the sheep,
10:13. And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep.
10:14. I am the good shepherd: and I know mine, and mine know me.
10:15. As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I lay down my life for my sheep.
10:16. And other sheep I have that are not of this fold: them also I must bring. And they shall hear my voice: And there shall be one fold and one shepherd.
10:17. Therefore doth the Father love me: because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
10:18. No man taketh it away from me: but I lay it down of myself. And I have power to lay it down: and I have power to take it up again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
10:19. A dissension rose again among the Jews for these words.
10:20. And many of them said: He hath a devil and is mad. Why hear you him?
10:21. Others said: These are not the words of one that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
10:22. And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: and it was winter.
10:23. And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch.
10:24. The Jews therefore came round about him and said to him: How long dost thou hold our souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
10:25. Jesus answered them: I speak to you, and you believe not: the works that I do in the name of my Father, they give testimony of me.
10:26. But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.
10:27. My sheep hear my voice. And I know them: and they follow me.
10:28. And I give them life everlasting: and they shall not perish for ever. And no man shall pluck them out of my hand.
10:29. That which my Father hath given me is greater than all: and no one can snatch them out of the hand of my Father.
10:30. I and the Father are one.
I and the Father are one... That is, one divine nature, but two distinct persons.
10:31. The Jews then took up stones to stone him.
10:32. Jesus answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?
10:33. The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy: and because that thou being a, man, makest thyself God.
10:34. Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I said, you are gods?
10:35. If he called them gods to whom the word of God was spoken; and the scripture cannot be broken:
10:36. Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world: Thou blasphemest; because I said: I am the Son of God?
10:37. If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
10:38. But if I do, though you will not believe me, believe the works: that you may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in the Father.
10:39. They sought therefore to take him: and he escaped out of their hands.
10:40. And he went again beyond the Jordan, into that place where John was baptizing first. And there he abode.
10:41. And many resorted to him: and they said: John indeed did no sign.
10:42. But all things whatsoever John said of this man were true. And many believed n him.
John Chapter 11
Christ raises Lazarus to life. The rulers resolve to put him to death.
11:1. Now there was a certain man sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, of the town of Mary and of Martha her sister.