Day 37 of 90

John 10:1–11:57

10:1 "Truly, truly, I tell you, one who does not enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

10:2 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

10:3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

10:4 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

10:5 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they do not know the voice of strangers."

10:6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they did not understand what he was telling them.

10:7 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door.

10:8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

10:10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

10:11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

10:12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

10:13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and does not care for the sheep.

10:14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and my own know me;

10:15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

10:16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

10:17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

10:18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."

10:19 Therefore a division arose again among the Jewish people because of these words.

10:20 Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?"

10:21 Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It is not possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?"

10:22 It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.

10:23 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch.

10:24 The Jewish leaders therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly."

10:25 Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about 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 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

10:29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

10:30 I and the Father are one."

10:31 Therefore the Jewish leaders took up stones again to stone him.

10:32 Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"

10:33 The Jewish leaders answered him, "We do not stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."

10:34 Jesus answered them, "Is not it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'

10:35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

10:36 do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'

10:37 If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me.

10:38 But if I do them, though you do not believe me, believe the works; that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."

10:39 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

10:40 He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.

10:41 Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true."

10:42 And many believed in him there.

11:1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

11:2 It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.

11:3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick."

11:4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it."

11:5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

11:6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.

11:7 Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let us go into Judea again."

11:8 The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"

11:9 Jesus answered, "Are not there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

11:10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

11:11 He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."

11:12 The disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."

11:13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.

11:14 So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead.

11:15 I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let us go to him."

11:16 Thomas therefore, who is called The Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go also, that we may die with him."

11:17 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.

11:18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.

11:19 Many of the Judeans had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

11:20 Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.

11:21 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother would not have died.

11:22 Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you."

11:23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."

11:24 Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."

11:25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

11:26 Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

11:27 She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, God's Son, he who comes into the world."

11:28 When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here, and is calling you."

11:29 When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him.

11:30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met him.

11:31 Then the Judeans who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

11:32 Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother would not have died."

11:33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Judeans weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

11:34 and said, "Where have you put him?" They told him, "Lord, come and see."

11:35 Jesus wept.

11:36 The Judeans therefore said, "See how much affection he had for him!"

11:37 Some of them said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?"

11:38 Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

11:39 Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days."

11:40 Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see God's glory?"

11:41 So they took away the stone. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

11:42 I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me."

11:43 When he had said this, he shouted with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

11:44 He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go."

11:45 Therefore many of the Judeans, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him.

11:46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.

11:47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

11:48 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."

11:49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,

11:50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."

11:51 Now he did not say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

11:52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

11:53 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

11:54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Judeans, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

11:55 Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

11:56 Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think-that he is not coming to the feast at all?"

11:57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.