MODERN LITERAL VERSION

10:1 Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, He who does not enter in through the door into the sheep's pen, but goes up elsewhere, that man is a thief and a robber.
10:2 But he who enters in through the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
10:3 The doorkeeper opens to him, and the sheep hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
10:4 And whenever he has put out his sheep, he travels in front of them and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.
10:5 And they may never* follow another man, but will escape from him, because they do not know the voice of others.
10:6 (This metaphor Jesus spoke to them, but they did not know what it was that he spoke to them.)

10:7 Therefore Jesus said to them again, Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, I am the door of the sheep.
10:8 All things, as many things as came before are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
10:9 I am the door; if anyone enters in through me, he will be saved and will go in and go out and will find pasture.
10:10 The thief does not come, except that* he may steal, and may sacrifice and may destroy you. I came that* they may have life and may have even-more of it.
10:11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life on behalf of the sheep.
10:12 But the hired servant and not the shepherd, whose sheep are not his own, views the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and escapes and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep.
10:13 Now the hired servant escapes because he is a hired servant and he himself does not care concerning the sheep.
10:14 I am the good shepherd, and I know my own and my own know me,
10:15 just-as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life on behalf of the sheep.
10:16 And I have other sheep, which are not of this pen; those also it is essential for me to lead and they will hear my voice and there will become one flock, one shepherd.
10:17 Because of this, 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 out of myself. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it up again. I received this commandment from my Father.

10:19 Therefore, there became a split again among the Jews because of these words.
10:20 And many out of them said, He has a demon and is mad; why do you* listen to him?

10:21 Others said, These are not the words of one who is demon-possessed. A demon is not able to open the eyes of the blind, is it?
{Jn 10:22-42; Jerusalem and beyond Jordan.}

10:22 And it happened to be Hanukkah in Jerusalem.
10:23 It was winter and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch.
10:24 Therefore the Jews surrounded him and said to him, Until when, will you take before telling us if you are the Christ? Tell us frankly.

10:25 Jesus answered them, I told you* and you* do not believe. The works that I am doing in my Father's name, these are testifying concerning me.
10:26 But you* do not believe, for* you* are not from my sheep just-as I said to you*.
10:27 My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me,
10:28 and I give to them everlasting life, and they may never* perish and no one will take them out of my hand.
10:29 My Father, who has given them to me, he is greater than all, and no one is able to take them out of my Father's hand.
10:30 I and the Father are one.
10:31 Therefore the Jews bore stones again that* they might stone him.
10:32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you* from my Father, because of which of those works do you* stone me?

10:33 The Jews answered him, saying, We do not stone you concerning a good work, but concerning blasphemy, and because you being a man, are making* yourself God.

10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your* law, that I said, You* are gods? {Ps 82:6?}
10:35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came* (and the Scripture cannot be torn-down),
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 am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me.
10:38 But if I am doing them, even if you* do not believe me, believe the works; that* you* may know and may believe that the Father is in me and I in him.
10:39 Therefore they sought again to arrest him and he went forth out of their hand.

10:40 And he went away again on the other side of the Jordan into the place where John was first immersing*, and he remained there.
10:41 And many came to him and they said, John indeed did no sign, but all things, as many things as John spoke concerning this man were true.
10:42 And many believed in him there.
{Jn 11:1-46; Peraea to Bethany, Jan. 30 AD.}