6In this Jesus was teaching them in the form of a story: but what he said was not clear to them.
7So Jesus said again, Truly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
8All who came before me are thieves and outlaws: but the sheep did not give ear to them.
9I am the door: if any man goes in through me he will have salvation, and will go in and go out, and will get food.
10The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in greater measure.
11I am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the sheep.
12He who is a servant, and not the keeper or the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming and goes in flight, away from the sheep; and the wolf comes down on them and sends them in all directions:
