Juan 10
Palabra de Dios para Todos
El pastor y sus ovejas
10 »Les digo la verdad: cuando alguien entra al corral de las ovejas debe hacerlo por la puerta. El que salta y entra por otro lado es un ladrón y un bandido. 2 Pero el pastor que cuida las ovejas entra por la puerta del corral. 3 El que vigila la puerta le abre la puerta al pastor. El pastor llama a las ovejas por sus propios nombres; ellas escuchan su voz y él las guía hacia afuera. 4 Cuando las ha sacado a todas, el pastor camina delante de ellas, y ellas lo siguen porque conocen su voz. 5 Pero sus ovejas no siguen a un extraño, sino que se alejan de él porque no conocen su voz.
6 Jesús les dio este ejemplo, pero la gente no entendió lo que les decía.
Jesús, el buen pastor
7 Jesús les dijo otra vez: «Les digo la verdad, yo soy la puerta por la que pasa el rebaño. 8 Todos los que vinieron antes de mí son unos ladrones y bandidos. Las ovejas no los escucharon. 9 Yo soy la puerta. Si alguno pasa por mí, se salvará. Podrá entrar y salir y encontrará todo lo que necesita. 10 El ladrón solamente viene para robar, matar y destruir. Yo vine para que la gente tenga vida y la tenga en abundancia.
11 »Yo soy el buen pastor. El buen pastor da su vida por las ovejas. 12 El empleado al que le pagan por cuidar las ovejas no es como el pastor. Las ovejas no le pertenecen, así que cuando ve que viene el lobo, abandona las ovejas y se escapa. El lobo las ataca y las dispersa. 13 El empleado huye porque sólo le importa que le paguen y no le importan las ovejas.
14 »Yo soy el buen pastor. Conozco a mis ovejas y ellas me conocen a mí 15 así como el Padre me conoce a mí y yo lo conozco a él. Yo doy mi vida por las ovejas. 16 Tengo también otras ovejas que no son de este rebaño, y debo traerlas a ellas también. Ellas escucharán mi voz y habrá un solo rebaño y un solo pastor. 17 El Padre me ama porque doy mi vida para volver a tenerla. 18 Nadie me quita la vida, sino que la doy libremente. Tengo el derecho de darla y de recibirla de nuevo. Eso es lo que me ordenó mi Padre».
19 Nuevamente los judíos no estaban de acuerdo entre ellos por lo que decía Jesús. 20 La mayoría decía: «Tiene un demonio y está loco. ¿Por qué lo escuchan?» 21 Otros decían: «Un hombre que tiene un demonio no dice estas cosas. Un demonio no puede darle la vista a un ciego».
Los líderes judíos en contra de Jesús
22 Era invierno y llegó la fiesta de la Dedicación en Jerusalén. 23 Jesús estaba caminando dentro del templo en el pórtico de Salomón. 24 Los líderes judíos lo rodearon y le dijeron:
—¿Cuánto tiempo más nos vas a tener en suspenso? Si eres el Mesías, dínoslo ya.
25 Jesús les respondió:
—Ya se lo he dicho a ustedes, pero no creen. Las obras que hago en nombre de mi Padre dan testimonio a mi favor, 26 pero ustedes no creen porque no son de mis ovejas. 27 Mis ovejas oyen mi voz, y yo las conozco y me siguen. 28 Les doy vida eterna y no morirán jamás, nadie me las puede quitar. 29 Mi Padre me las dio y él es más grande que cualquiera.[a] Nadie se las puede quitar. 30 El Padre y yo somos uno.
31 De nuevo, los judíos tomaron piedras para tirarle, pero 32 Jesús les contestó:
—Les he mostrado muchas buenas obras de mi Padre, y ustedes las han visto. ¿Por cuál de todas me van a apedrear?
33 Los líderes judíos le respondieron:
—No te apedreamos por algo bueno que hayas hecho, sino porque hablas en contra de Dios. No eres más que un ser humano, pero dices que eres Dios. Por eso te vamos a apedrear.
34 (A)Jesús les contestó:
—En la ley de ustedes está escrito que Dios dijo: “Yo dije que ustedes son dioses”.[b] 35 Si llamó “dioses” a aquellos que recibieron el mensaje de Dios, y las Escrituras no pueden ser ignoradas, 36 ¿por qué al que el Padre eligió y envió al mundo le dicen ustedes que ofende a Dios porque dije: “Soy el Hijo de Dios”? 37 Si no hago las obras de mi Padre, no me crean. 38 Pero si las hago, aunque no me crean a mí, crean en las obras que hago para que sepan con toda seguridad que el Padre está en mí y yo en él.
39 Trataron otra vez de arrestarlo, pero él se les escapó de las manos.
40 Jesús regresó nuevamente al otro lado del río Jordán, al mismo lugar donde Juan antes había estado bautizando, y se quedó allí. 41 Muchos fueron a él, y decían: «Juan no hizo ninguna señal milagrosa, pero todo lo que dijo sobre este hombre es verdad». 42 Y allí muchos creyeron en él.
John 10
New Testament for Everyone
The good shepherd
10 “I’m telling you the solemn truth,” said Jesus. “Anyone who doesn’t come into the sheepfold by the gate, but gets in by some other way, is a thief and a brigand. 2 But the one who comes in through the gate is the sheep’s own shepherd. 3 The doorkeeper will open up for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. 4 When he has brought out all that belong to him, he goes on ahead of them. The sheep follow him, because they know his voice. 5 They won’t follow a stranger; instead, they will run away from him, because they don’t know the stranger’s voice.”
6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what it was he was saying to them.
7 So he spoke to them again.
“I’m telling you the solemn truth,” he said. “I am the gate of the sheep. 8 All the people who came before me were thieves and brigands, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. 9 I am the gate. If anyone comes in by me, they will be safe, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief only comes to steal, and kill, and destroy. I came so that they could have life—yes, and have it full to overflowing.”
The shepherd and the sheep
11 “I am the good shepherd,” Jesus continued. “The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 But supposing there’s a hired servant, who isn’t himself the shepherd, and who doesn’t himself own the sheep. He will see the wolf coming, and leave the sheep, and run away. Then the wolf will snatch the sheep and scatter them. 13 He’ll run away because he’s only a hired servant, and doesn’t care about the sheep.
14 “I am the good shepherd. I know my own sheep, and my own know me— 15 just as the father knows me and I know the father. And I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And I have other sheep, too, which don’t belong to this sheepfold. I must bring them, too, and they will hear my voice. Then there will be one flock, and one shepherd.
17 “That’s why the father loves me, because I lay down my life, so that I can take it again. 18 Nobody takes it from me; I lay it down of my own accord. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to receive it back again. This is the command I received from my father.”
The Messiah and the father
19 So there was again a division among the Judaeans because of what Jesus had said.
20 “He’s demon-possessed!” some were saying. “He’s raving mad! Why listen to him?”
21 “No,” said some others, “that’s not how demon-possessed people talk. Anyway, how could a demon open a blind man’s eyes?”
22 It was the Feast of the Dedication in Jerusalem. It was winter, 23 and Jesus was walking in the Temple, in Solomon’s Porch. 24 The Judaeans surrounded him.
“How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense?” they asked. “If you are the Messiah, say so out loud!”
25 “I told you,” replied Jesus, “and you didn’t believe. The works which I’m doing in my father’s name give evidence about me. 26 But you don’t believe, because you don’t belong to my sheep.
27 “My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them the life of the coming age. They will never, ever perish, and nobody can snatch them out of my hand. 29 My father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and nobody can snatch them out of my father’s hand. 30 I and the father are one.”
Blasphemy!
31 So the Judaeans once more picked up stones to stone him.
32 “I’ve shown you many fine deeds from the father,” Jesus replied to them. “Which of these deeds are you stoning me for?”
33 “We’re not stoning you for good deeds,” replied the Judaeans, “but because of blasphemy! Here you are, a mere man, and you’re making yourself into God!”
34 “It’s written in your law, isn’t it,” replied Jesus to them, “ ‘I said, you are gods?’ 35 Well, if the law calls people ‘gods,’ people to whom God’s word came (and you can’t set the Bible aside), 36 how can you accuse someone of blasphemy when the father has placed him apart and sent him into the world, and he says, ‘I am the son of God’?
37 “If I’m not doing the works of my father, don’t believe me. 38 But if I am doing them, well—even if you don’t believe me, believe the works! That way you will know and grasp that the father is in me, and I am in the father.”
39 So again they tried to arrest him. But Jesus managed to get away from them.
40 He went off once more across the Jordan, to the place where John had been baptizing at the beginning, and he stayed there. 41 Several people came to him.
“John never did any signs,” they said, “but everything that John said about this man was true.”
42 And many believed in him there.
John 10
King James Version
10 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
21 Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
30 I and my Father are one.
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
40 And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.
41 And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.
42 And many believed on him there.
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