João 10

1 "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 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. 4 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers." 6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

7 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door. 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. 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 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

11 "I am the good shepherd. ✝ 10:11 Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22 The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them. 13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; 15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep which are not of this fold.✝10:16 Isaiah 56:8 I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. 17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, ✝10:17 Isaiah 53:7-8 that I may take it again. 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."

19 Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words. 20 Many of them said, "He has a demon and is insane! Why do you listen to him?" 21 Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?"✝10:21 Exodus 4:11

22 It was the Feast of the Dedication*10:22 The "Feast of the Dedication" is the Greek name for "Hanukkah", a celebration of the rededication of the Temple. at Jerusalem. 23 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. 24 The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

25 Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. 26 But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one."

31 Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"

33 The Jews answered him, "We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God."

34 Jesus answered them, "Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’?✝10:34 Psalms 82:6 35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken), 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’? 37 If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. 38 But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."

39 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand. 40 He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and he stayed there. 41 Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true." 42 Many believed in him there.

Te Kupu Whakarite o te Hēpara

1 "He pono, he pono tāku e mea nei ki a koutou, ki te kāhore tētahi e tomo rā te kūwaha ki te kāinga hipi, ki te piki kē, he tāhae ia, he tangata pāhua. 2 Tēnā ko te tangata e tomo ana rā te kūwaha, ko te hēpara ia o ngā hipi. 3 Ka uaki te kaitiaki tatau ki a ia; ka rongo anō ngā hipi ki tōna reo. Nā, ka karangatia e ia āna hipi ake, tō tēnei ingoa, tō tēnei ingoa, ka ārahina ki waho. 4 Ā, ka oti āna ake hipi te tuku ki waho, ka haere ia i mua i a rātou, ka aru ngā hipi i a ia; e mātau ana hoki rātou ki tōna reo. 5 E kore ia rātou e aru i te tauhou, engari ka oma i a ia; e kore hoki e mātau ki te reo o ngā tauhou."

6 I kōrerotia tēnei kupu whakarite e Īhu ki a rātou; heoi, kīhai rātou i mōhio ki ngā mea i kōrerotia e ia ki a rātou.

Ko Īhu te Hēpara Pai

7 Nā, ka mea anō a Īhu ki a rātou, "He pono, he pono tāku e mea nei ki a koutou, Ko ahau te tatau o ngā hipi. 8 He tāhae, he kaipāhua te hunga katoa i haere mai i mua i ahau; heoi kīhai ngā hipi i whakarongo ki a rātou. 9 Ko ahau te tatau; ki te waiho ahau hei huarahi tomokanga mō tētahi, e ora ia, ā, ka haere ki roto, ka haere ki waho, ka kite hoki i te kai. 10 Heoi anō tā te tāhae e haere mai ai, he tāhae, he patu, he whakamōtī hoki. I haere mai ahau kia whiwhi ai rātou ki te ora, inā, tōna nui noa atu.

11 "Ko ahau te hēpara pai, he hēpara pai, ka tuku i a ia anō kia mate mō ngā hipi. 12 Tēnā ko te tangata e utua ana, ehara nei i te hēpara, ehara nei i a ia ngā hipi, i tōna kitenga i te wuruhi e haere mai ana, whakarērea ake e ia ngā hipi, oma ana; nā, ka hopukia rātou e te wuruhi, ā, whakamararatia ana ngā hipi. 13 Ka oma te tangata e utua ana, nō te mea e utua ana ia, kāhore hoki ōna whakaaro ki ngā hipi. 14 Ko ahau te hēpara pai, e mātau ana hoki ki āku, ā, e mātau ana āku ki ahau. 15 Pērā tonu me tō te Matua mātau ki ahau, me tōku mātau hoki ki te Matua. E tuku ana hoki ahau i ahau ki te mate mō ngā hipi. 16 He hipi atu anō āku, ehara nei i tēnei kāinga. Me ārahi mai rātou e ahau, ā, ka rongo rātou ki tōku reo; ā, e whakakotahitia te kāhui, kotahi anō hoki hēpara.

17 "Koia te Matua ka aroha mai ai ki ahau, nō te mea e tuku ana ahau i ahau kia mate, kia whakaora ake ai anō ahau i ahau. 18 Ehara i te mea mā tētahi tangata ahau e whakamate, engari, māku anō ahau e tuku ki te mate. Kei ahau te tikanga mō te tuku atu, kei ahau anō te tikanga mō te whakaora. Nā tōku Matua tēnei ture kua riro mai nei i ahau."

19 Kātahi, ka wehewehea ngā Hūrai, nā ēnei kupu. 20 He tokomaha o rātou i mea, "He rēwera tōna, e haurangi ana; he aha koutou ka whakarongo ai ki a ia?"

21 Ko ētahi i mea, "Ehara ēnei i ngā kupu a te tangata e nohoia ana e te rēwera. E āhei koia i te rēwera te mea i ngā kanohi o ngā matapō kia kite?"

Ka Whakarērea a Īhu

22 Nā, i Hiruhārama tēnei, i te Hākari Horohoronga. He hōtoke; 23 ā, e hāereere ana a Īhu i te temepara, i te whakamahau o Horomona. 24 Nā, ka karapotia ia e ngā Hūrai, ka mea rātou ki a ia, "Kia pēhea te roa o tāu waiho i ō mātou ngākau i hikirangi ana? Ki te mea ko te Karaiti koe, kōrerotia matanuitia mai ki a mātou."

25 Ka whakahoki a Īhu ki a rātou, "Kua kōrerotia e ahau ki a koutou, ā, kāhore koutou e whakapono. Ko ngā mahi e mahi nei ahau i runga i te ingoa o tōku Matua, ko ēnei hei kaiwhakaatu mōku. 26 Otirā, e kore koutou e whakapono, nō te mea ehara koutou i te hipi nāku. 27 E rongo ana āku hipi ki tōku reo, e mātau ana ahau ki a rātou, e aru ana hoki rātou i ahau. 28 E hoatu ana e ahau ki a rātou he ora tonu; e kore rātou e ngaro ake ake, e kore anō hoki tētahi e kapo atu i a rātou i roto i tōku ringa. 29 Ko tōku Matua, nāna nei rātou i hōmai ki ahau, nui ake i te katoa; e kore anō rātou e taea e tētahi te kapo atu i roto i te ringa o tōku Matua. 30 Ko ahau, ko te Matua, kotahi māua."

31 Kātahi, ka mau anō ngā Hūrai ki te kōhatu hei āki ki a ia. 32 Ka whakahokia e Īhu ki a rātou, "He maha ngā mahi pai kua whakakitea nei e ahau ki a koutou, he mea nā tōku Matua. Mō tēhea o aua mahi ka ākina ai ahau e koutou?"

33 Ka whakahoki ngā Hūrai ki a ia, ka mea, "Ehara te mahi pai i te mea e ākina ai koe; engari, mō te kohukohu, mō te mea hoki ko koe, tangata nei anō, e whakaatua ana i a koe."

34 Ka whakahokia e Īhu ki a rātou, "Kāhore rānei i tuhituhia i roto i tō koutou ture, ‘I mea ahau, He atua koutou’? 35 Ki te huaina e ia he atua te hunga i tae mai nei te kupu a te Atua ki a rātou, ā, e kore hoki e taea te whakakāhore te karaipiture. 36 E mea ana oti koutou ki tā te Matua i whakatapu ai, i tono mai ai hoki ki te ao, ‘E kohukohu ana koe’; nōku i mea, ‘Ko te Tama ahau a te Atua’? 37 Ki te kore ahau e mahi i ngā mahi a tōku Matua, aua ahau e whakaponohia. 38 Tēnā, ki te mahi ahau, ahakoa kāhore koutou e whakapono ki ahau, whakaponohia ngā mahi; kia mātau ai koutou kia whakapono ai, ko te Matua kei roto i ahau, me ahau hoki kei roto i a ia." 39 Nā, ka whai anō rātou kia hopukia ia; heoi, puta ana ia i ō rātou ringa.

40 Nā, ka haere anō ia ki tāwāhi o Horano, ki te wāhi i mātua iriiri ai a Hoani; ā, noho ana i reira. 41 Ā, tokomaha hoki i haere ki a ia; i mea rātou "Kīhai a Hoani i mahi i tētahi merekara; he pono ia ngā mea katoa i kōrerotia e Hoani mō tēnei." 42 Ā, he tokomaha o reira i whakapono ki a ia.