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| 1 Indeed indeed I say to you, he not entering through the door into the fold of the sheep, but going up another way, he a thief is and a robber;
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| 2 he but entering through the door, a shepherd is of the sheep.
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| 3 To him the door-keeper opens; and the sheep the voice of him hears; and the own sheep he calls by name, and he leads out them.
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The Porter – In the Harvest of the Jewish Age the porter was the Law Covenant that kept the Jews penned in. In the Harvest of the Gospel Age the porter would seem to be the false claim that the only way to God was through the nominal church.
Hear his voice – This is the voice of our Lord Jesus, especially at both the first and second advents. In both cases Jesus stands outside the nominal church system and calls to his sheep.
His voice is the Harvest Message.
He leadeth them out – It is Jesus who calls us to "Come out of her, my people." |
| 4 And when the own sheep he puts forth, before them he goes; and the sheep him follows, because they know the voice of him.
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He goeth before them – Showing that the sheep need no longer remain in the system. Before the Bride leaves the system, the Lord has already left it as indicated by this phrase: "He goeth before them".
The sheep follow him – As always. The true sheep always follow the leading of their Master.
"Come out of her, my people."
They know his voice – They do not guess at his voice, they know it, thus indicating that these make the Truth their own. "Prove all things, hold fast that which is good." |
| 5 A stranger but not not they may follow, but will flee from him; because not they know of the strangers the voice.
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| 6 This the parable said to them the Jesus; they but not knew, what was, which he spoke to them. |
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| 7 Said then again to them the Jesus: Indeed indeed I say to you, that I am the door of the sheep.
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| 8 All as many as came before me, thieves are and robbers; but not heard them the sheep.
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| 9 I am the door; through me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and shall come in and go out, and pasture shall find.
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| 10 The thief not come, if not that he may steal and may kill, and may destroy; I come, that life they may have, and abundance may have.
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| 11 I am the shepherd the good; the shepherd the good the life of himself lays down in behalf of the sheep.
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| 12 The hireling but, and not being a shepherd, of whom not are the sheep own, see the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees; and the wolf seizes them, and scatters the sheep.
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| 13 The but hireling flees, because an hireling he is, and not it concerns him about the sheep.
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| 14 I am the shepherd the good; and know the mine, and am known by the mine,
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| 15 as knows me the Father, and I know the Father; and the life of me I lay down in behalf of the sheep.
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| 16 And other sheep I have, which not is of the fold this; also them me it behooves to lead; and the voice of me they will hear, and there will be one flock, one shepherd.
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| 17 Through this the Father me loves, because I lay down the life of me, that again I may receive her;
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| 18 no one takes her from me, but I lay down her of myself; authority I have to lay down her, and authority I have again to receive her; this the command I received from the Father of me.
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| 19 A division then again occurred among the Jews through the words these. |
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| 20 Said and many of them: A demon he has, and is mad; why him hear you? |
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| 21 Others said: These the words not are of one being demonized; not a demon is able blind eyes to open? |
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| 22 Occurred now the feast of dedication in the Jerusalem, and winter it was; |
The feast of the dedication – "Today this festival is called Hanukkah or the Festival of Lights." See What is the Feast of Dedication? |
| 23 and was walking the Jesus in the temple, in the porch of Solomon. |
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| 24 Surrounded therefore him the Jews, and said to him: Till when the life of us dost thou take? If thou art the Anointed, tell us plainly. |
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| 25 Answered them the Jesus: I told you, and not you believe. The works, which I do in the name of the Father of me these testify concerning me.
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| 26 But you not believe; not for you are of the sheep the mine.
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| 27 As I said to you, the sheep the mine the voice of me hears, and I know them, and they follow me;
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| 28 and I life age-lasting give to them, and not not they will perish into the age, and not will wrest any one them out of the hand of me.
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| 29 The father of me, who has given to me, greater of all is; and no one is able to wrest out of the hand of the Father of me;
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| 30 I and the Father one are.
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| 31 Took up then again stones the Jews, that they might stone him. |
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| 32 Answered them the Jesus: Many good works I showed you from the Father of me; because of which of them work do you stone me?
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| 33 Answered him the Jews saying: Concerning a good work not we stone thee, but concerning blasphemy, and that thou, a man being, makest thyself a god. |
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| 34 Answered them the Jesus: Not is it having been written in the law of you: I said, gods you are?
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| 35 If them he called gods, to whom the word of the God came, and not is able to be broken the writing;
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| 36 whom the Father set apart, and sent into the world, you say: That thou blasphemest, because I said, A son of the God I am?
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| 37 If not I do the works of the Father of me, not you believe me.
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| 38 If but I do, and if me not you believe, the works believe you; that you may know and you may believe, that in me the Father, and I in him.
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| 39 They sought therefore again him to seize; and he went forth out of the hand of them. |
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| 40 And he went again beyond the Jordan, to the place where was John the first dipping; and abode there. |
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| 41 And many came to him, and said: That John indeed a sign did not one; all but what things said John concerning this, true was. |
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| 42 And believed many there into him. |
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