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15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I will lay down my life for the sheep.(A) 16 I have other sheep[a] that do not belong to this fold. These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd.(B) 17 This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 10:16 Other sheep: the Gentiles, possibly a reference to “God’s dispersed children” of Jn 11:52 destined to be gathered into one, or “apostolic Christians” at odds with the community of the beloved disciple.