⁷ So again Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.

⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.^(A)

¹⁸ for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father.^(A)

Jesus the Good Shepherd

10 “Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit.

⁹ I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.

A Call to Persevere

¹⁹ Therefore, my brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,^{(A) 20} by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh),^{(B) 21} and since we have a great priest over the house of God,^{(C) 22} let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.^(D)

³¹ You are my sheep, the sheep of my pasture,^[a] and I am your God, says the Lord God.^(A)