Jesus

Yeshua heard that they had thrown the man out. He found him and said, “Do you trust in the Son of Man?”

“Sir,” he answered, “tell me who he is, so that I can trust in him.”

Yeshua said to him, “You have seen him. In fact, he’s the one speaking with you now.”

“Lord, I trust!” he said, and he kneeled down in front of him.

Yeshua said, “It is to judge that I came into this world, so that those who do not see might see, and those who do see might become blind.”

Some of the P’rushim nearby heard this and said to him, “So we’re blind too, are we?”

Yeshua answered them, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin. But since you still say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.

“Yes, indeed! I tell you, the person who doesn’t enter the sheep-pen through the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

Yeshua used this indirect manner of speaking with them, but they didn’t understand what he was talking to them about.

So Yeshua said to them again, “Yes, indeed! I tell you that I am the gate for the sheep.

All those who have come before me have been thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

I am the gate; if someone enters through me, he will be safe and will go in and out and find pasture.

The thief comes only in order to steal, kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, life in its fullest measure.

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

I am the good shepherd; I know my own, and my own know me —

just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father — and I lay down my life on behalf of the sheep.

Also I have other sheep which are not from this pen; I need to bring them, and they will hear my voice; and there will be one flock, one shepherd.

“This is why the Father loves me: because I lay down my life — in order to take it up again!

No one takes it away from me; on the contrary, I lay it down of my own free will. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it up again. This is what my Father commanded me to do.”

Many of them said, “He has a demon!” and “He’s meshugga! Why do you listen to him?”

and Yeshua was walking around inside the Temple area, in Shlomo’s Colonnade.

So the Judeans surrounded him and said to him, “How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us publicly!”

Yeshua answered them, “I have already told you, and you don’t trust me. The works I do in my Father’s name testify on my behalf,

but the reason you don’t trust is that you are not included among my sheep.

My sheep listen to my voice, I recognize them, they follow me,