010:009 I am the Door. If any one enters by me, he will find safety,
and will go in and out and find pasture.
010:010 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy:
I have come that they may have Life, and may have it in abundance.
010:011 "I am the Good Shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his very life
for the sheep.
010:012 The hired servant—one who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep—no sooner sees the wolf coming than he leaves the sheep and runs away; and the wolf worries and scatters them.
010:013 For he is only a hired servant and cares nothing for the sheep.
010:014 "I am the Good Shepherd. And I know my sheep and my sheep know me,
010:015 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I am laying down my life for the sheep.
010:016 I have also other sheep—which do not belong to this fold. Those also I must bring, and they will listen to my voice; and they shall become one flock under one Shepherd.
010:017 For this reason my Father loves me, because I am laying down my life in order to receive it back again.
010:018 No one is taking it away from me, but I myself am laying it down. I am authorized to lay it down, and I am authorized to receive it back again. This is the command I received from my Father."