9. I am the gate. Whoever comes in by me will be saved; they will come in and go out and find pasture.
10. The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that you might have life — life in all its fullness.
11. “I am the good shepherd, who is willing to die for the sheep.
12. When the hired man, who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees a wolf coming, he leaves the sheep and runs away; so the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.
13. The hired man runs away because he is only a hired man and does not care about the sheep.
14-15. I am the good shepherd. As the Father knows me and I know the Father, in the same way I know my sheep and they know me. And I am willing to die for them.
16. There are other sheep which belong to me that are not in this sheepfold. I must bring them, too; they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock with one shepherd.