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224 sheep heare his voice: and he calleth his owne sheep by name, and leadeth them forth. And when he hath let forth his owne sheep, he goeth before them: and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him because they know not the voice of strangers. This proverb said to them. But they knew not what he spake to them.

therfore said to them againe: Amen, amen I say to you, that I am the doore of the sheep. And how many soever have come, are theeves and robbers: but the sheep heard them not. I am the doore. By me if any enter, he shal be saved: and he shal goe in and shal goe out, and shal find pastures. The theefe commeth not but to steale and kil and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have more aboundantly.✠ I am the good Pastour. ″ The good Pastour giveth his life for his sheep. But the hireling and he that is not the Pastour, whose owne the sheep are not, seeth the wulfe comming, and leaveth the sheep, and flieth: and the wulfe raveneth, and disperseth the sheep. And the hireling ″ flieth because he is a hireling; and he hath no care of the sheep. I am the good Pastour; and I know mine, and mine know me. As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I yeald my life for my sheep. And other sheep I have that are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shal heare my voice, and there shal be made * one fold and one Pastour.✠ Therfore the Father loveth me: because I yeald my life, that I may take it againe. No man taketh it away from me: but * I yeald it of myself. And I have power to yeald it: and I have power to take it againe. This commandement I received of my Father.

A dissension rose againe among the Jewes for these wordes. And many of them said: He hath a Divel and is mad; why heare you him? Others said: These are not the wordes of one that hath a Divel. Can a Divel open the eyes of blind men?

* And ″ the Dedication was in Hierusalem: and it was winter. And walked in the Temple, in Salomons porch. The Jewes therfore compassed him round about, and said to him: How long doest thou hold our soule in suspense? if thou be, tel us openly. answered them: I speake to you; and you beleeve not; the workes that I doe in the name of my Father, they give testimonie of me. But you doe not beleeve, because you are not of my sheep. My sheep heare my voice; and I know them, and they follow me. And I give them life everlasting; and they shal not perish for ever, and no man shal plucke them out of my hand. My father, ″ that which he hath given me, is greater then al: and no man can plucke them out of the hand of my Father. I and the Father are* one.

The Jewes tooke up stones, to stone him. answered them: Many good workes I have shewed you from my Father, for which of those workes doe you stone me? The Jewes answered him: For a good worke we stone thee not, but for blasphemie, and because thou being a man, makest thyself God. answered them: Is it not written in your law, that I said, you are Goddes? If he called them Goddes, to whom the word of God was made, and the scripture can not be Rh