Juan 10
La Palabra (Hispanoamérica)
Alegoría del pastor y el rebaño
10 Les aseguro que quien no entra por la puerta en el aprisco de las ovejas, sino por cualquier otra parte, es un ladrón y un salteador. 2 El pastor de las ovejas entra por la puerta. 3 A este, el guarda le abre la puerta y las ovejas reconocen su voz; él las llama por su propio nombre y las hace salir fuera del aprisco. 4 Cuando ya han salido todas, camina delante de ellas y las ovejas siguen sus pasos, pues lo reconocen por la voz. 5 En cambio, nunca siguen a un extraño, sino que huyen de él, porque su voz les resulta desconocida. 6 Jesús les puso este ejemplo, pero ellos no comprendieron su significado.
Jesús, el buen pastor
7 Entonces Jesús les dijo:
— Les aseguro que yo soy la puerta del aprisco. 8 Todos los que se presentaron antes de mí eran ladrones y salteadores. Por eso, las ovejas no les hicieron ningún caso. 9 Yo soy la puerta verdadera. Todo el que entre en el aprisco por esta puerta, estará a salvo; entrará y saldrá libremente y siempre encontrará su pasto. 10 El ladrón sólo viene para robar, matar y destruir. Yo he venido para que todos tengan vida, y la tengan abundante.
11 Yo soy el buen pastor. El buen pastor se desvive por las ovejas. 12 En cambio, el asalariado, que no es verdadero pastor ni propietario de las ovejas, cuando ve venir al lobo, las abandona y huye, dejando que el lobo haga estragos en unas y ahuyente a las otras. 13 Y es que, al ser asalariado, las ovejas lo traen sin cuidado.
14 Yo soy el buen pastor y conozco a mis ovejas y ellas me conocen a mí, 15 del mismo modo que el Padre me conoce a mí y yo conozco al Padre. Y doy mi vida por las ovejas. 16 Tengo todavía otras ovejas que no están en este aprisco a las que también debo atraer; escucharán mi voz y habrá un solo rebaño bajo la guía de un solo pastor.
17 El Padre me ama porque yo entrego mi vida, aunque la recuperaré de nuevo. 18 Nadie me la quita por la fuerza; soy yo quien libremente la doy. Tengo poder para darla y para volver a recuperarla; y esta es la misión que debo cumplir por encargo de mi Padre.
19 Estas palabras de Jesús fueron la causa de una nueva división de opiniones entre los judíos. 20 Muchos decían:
— Está poseído de un demonio y ha perdido el juicio; ¿por qué le prestan atención?
21 Otros, en cambio, replicaban:
— Sus palabras no son precisamente las de un endemoniado. ¿Podría un demonio dar la vista a los ciegos?
Los judíos rechazan a Jesús
22 Se celebraba aquellos días la fiesta que conmemoraba la dedicación del Templo. Era invierno 23 y Jesús estaba paseando por el pórtico de Salomón, dentro del recinto del Templo. 24 Se le acercaron entonces los judíos, se pusieron a su alrededor y le dijeron:
— ¿Hasta cuándo vas a tenernos en vilo? Si eres el Mesías, dínoslo claramente de una vez.
25 Jesús les respondió:
— Se lo he dicho y ustedes no me han creído. Mis credenciales son las obras que yo hago por la autoridad recibida de mi Padre. 26 Ustedes, sin embargo, no me creen, porque no son ovejas de mi rebaño. 27 Mis ovejas reconocen mi voz, yo las conozco y ellas me siguen. 28 Yo les doy vida eterna, jamás perecerán y nadie podrá arrebatármelas; 29 como no pueden arrebatárselas a mi Padre que, con su soberano poder, me las ha confiado. 30 El Padre y yo somos uno.
31 Intentaron otra vez los judíos apedrear a Jesús. 32 Pero él les dijo:
— Muchas obras buenas he hecho ante ustedes en virtud del poder de mi Padre; ¿por cuál de ellas quieren apedrearme?
33 Le contestaron:
— No queremos apedrearte por ninguna obra buena, sino por haber blasfemado, ya que tú, siendo un hombre como los demás, pretendes hacerte pasar por Dios.
34 Jesús les replicó:
— ¿No está escrito en la ley que Dios dijo: Ustedes son dioses? 35 Si, pues, la ley llama dioses a aquellos a quienes fue dirigido el mensaje de Dios y, por otra parte, lo que dice la Escritura no puede ponerse en duda, 36 ¿con qué derecho me acusan de blasfemia a mí, que he sido elegido por el Padre para ser enviado al mundo, por haber dicho que soy Hijo de Dios? 37 Si no realizo las obras de mi Padre, no me crean; 38 pero, si las realizo, fíense de ellas, aunque no quieran fiarse de mí. De este modo conocerán y se convencerán de que el Padre está en mí, y yo en el Padre.
39 A la vista de estos discursos, los judíos intentaron, una vez más, apresar a Jesús; pero él se les escapó de las manos. 40 Jesús se fue de nuevo al otro lado del Jordán, al lugar donde tiempo atrás había estado bautizando Juan, y se quedó allí. 41 Acudía a él mucha gente, y decían:
— Cierto que Juan no hizo ningún milagro, pero todo lo que dijo acerca de este era verdad.
42 Y fueron muchos los que en aquella región creyeron en él.
John 10
EasyEnglish Bible
The story about the shepherd
10 Jesus then said, ‘I tell you this: A shepherd keeps his sheep in a safe place with a wall round it. There is a gate into that safe place. Anyone who gets into that place by another way, not through the gate, is not the shepherd. That person is a robber. He comes to take away the sheep for himself. 2 But the shepherd goes in through the gate. 3 The person who watches the gate opens it for the shepherd. The sheep recognize the shepherd's voice. He calls each of his own sheep by their name and he leads them out. 4 When he has brought out all his own sheep, he goes in front of them. The sheep follow him because they know his voice. 5 They will not follow a stranger. They will run away from a stranger because they do not recognize his voice.’
6 Jesus told this story like a picture to teach the people. But they did not understand what he was saying to them.
Jesus is like the good shepherd
7 So Jesus spoke again. He said, ‘I tell you this: I am like the gate for the sheep. 8 All other men who came before me were like robbers.[a] But the sheep did not listen to them. 9 I am like the gate. Everyone who comes in through me will be safe. They will be free to come in and to go out. And they will find plenty of food. 10 The robber only wants to take away my sheep. He wants to kill them. He comes only to destroy them. But I have come so that they can have true life. And so that they can have everything that they need.
11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd would die so that he can save his sheep. 12 Another man may take care of sheep so that he gets money. But the sheep do not belong to him. A man like that is not the shepherd. If a wolf comes, a man like that runs away when he sees it. He leaves the sheep in danger. Then the wolf attacks the sheep. It causes them to run away in all directions. 13 That man runs away because the sheep do not belong to him. He does not think that the sheep are important.
14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own sheep, and they know me. 15 I know them in the same way that my Father knows me. And they know me in the same way that I know the Father. I will die so that I can save my sheep. 16 I also have other sheep, and I must bring them too. They do not belong to this group of sheep. But they also will listen to my voice. So all the sheep will become one group, and they will have one shepherd. 17 The Father loves me because I choose to die for my sheep. But after I give my life like that, I will become alive again. 18 Nobody can take my life away from me. Instead, I myself can choose to die. I have authority to do that. I also have authority to become alive again. My Father has said that I must do that.’
19 Again, the Jews could not agree about these things that Jesus said. 20 Many of them said, ‘He has a demon in him and he is crazy. You should not listen to him!’ 21 But other people said, ‘A man with a demon in him could not teach like this! A demon could not make blind people able to see!’
The Jewish leaders do not believe in Jesus
22 It was the time for the Jewish Festival called Hanukkah.[b] This happened in Jerusalem. It was winter.
23 Jesus was walking in the yard of the temple, under a place with a roof. The place was called Solomon's porch. 24 The Jewish leaders stood around him. They said to him, ‘We want to know who you are. When will you tell us? If you are the Messiah, tell us clearly.’ 25 Jesus answered, ‘I have already told you, but you do not believe. The things that I do by my Father's authority show you who I am. 26 But you refuse to believe, because you are not my sheep. 27 My sheep recognize my voice. I know them and they follow me. 28 I give them life for ever with God. They will never die. Nobody can ever take them away from me. 29 My Father has given them to me. He is greater than all things. Nobody can ever take my sheep out of my Father's hand. 30 My Father and I are one.’
31 Then the Jewish leaders picked up stones again to throw at Jesus so that they could kill him. 32 Jesus said to them, ‘I have done many good things. The Father sent me to do them, and I have shown them to you. Which of those good things make you want to kill me with stones?’ 33 The Jewish leaders answered, ‘We do not want to kill you because of any good things that you have done. We want to kill you because you are speaking against God. You are only a man, but you are saying that you are God.’
34 Jesus answered them, ‘It is written in your own books of God's Law that God said, “You are gods.”[c] 35 God called the people to whom he spoke “gods”. And you know that the Bible always remains true. 36 So, when I said that I am God's Son, why am I wrong? The Father chose me for himself. And he sent me into the world. So you should not say that I am speaking bad things against God. 37 If I am not doing my Father's work, do not believe me. 38 But if I am doing his work, you should believe that work. Even if you do not believe me, you should believe the things that I do. Then you will know certainly that the Father is in me. And you will know that I am in the Father.’
39 Again, the Jewish leaders tried to take hold of Jesus. But he escaped from them.
40 After that, Jesus returned across the Jordan River. He went to the place where John had earlier baptized people. Jesus stayed there. 41 Many people came to him. They said to each other, ‘John did not do any miracles. But everything that he said about this man was true.’ 42 So, in that place, many people believed in Jesus.
Footnotes
- 10:8 These men were leaders who said that they wanted to take care of God's people. But they did not really help the people. Instead they hurt them, like robbers.
- 10:22 At the Festival called Hanukkah, Israel's people remembered a special time, 165 years before Jesus came to the earth. A foreign ruler had come to Jerusalem. He had put false gods in the temple in Jerusalem. But some of Israel's people attacked that ruler and they sent him away. Then they made the temple clean again so that they could worship the one true God there.
- 10:34 See Psalms 82:6.
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