6This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
7Jesus therefore said unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
8All that came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
9I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and go out, and shall find pasture.
10The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have [it] abundantly.
11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.
12He that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, beholdeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth, and the wolf snatcheth them, and scattereth [them]: