⁷So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, bI am the door of the sheep. ⁸All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. ⁹I am the door. If anyone enters by me, che will be saved and will go in and out and dfind pasture. ¹⁰The thief comes only to steal and ekill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. ¹¹fI am the good shepherd. The good shepherd glays down his life for the sheep. ¹²He who is ha hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and ileaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and jscatters them. ¹³He flees because khe is a hired hand and lcares nothing for the sheep. ¹⁴mI am the good shepherd. nI know my own and omy own know me, ¹⁵pjust as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and qI lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶And rI have other sheep that are not of this fold. sI must bring them also, and tthey will listen to my voice. So there will be uone flock, vone shepherd. ¹⁷wFor this reason the Father loves me, xbecause yI lay down my life that I may take it up again. ¹⁸zNo one takes it from me, but yI lay it down aof my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and bI have authority to take it up again. cThis charge I have received from my Father.”

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