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VI.
THE FEAST OF DEDICATION
The good shepherd
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‘I tell you most solemnly, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold through the gate, but gets in some other way is a thief and a brigand.
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The one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the flock;
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the gatekeeper lets him in, the sheep hear his voice, one by one he calls his own sheep and leads them out.
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When he has brought out his flock, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow because they know his voice.
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They never follow a stranger but run away from him: they do not recognise the voice of strangers.’
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Jesus told them[*a] this parable but they failed to understand what he meant by telling it to them.
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So Jesus spoke to them again: ‘I tell you most solemnly, I am the gate of the sheepfold.
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All others who have come are thieves and brigands; but the sheep took no notice of them
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I am the gate. Anyone who enters through me will be safe: he will go freely in and out and be sure of finding pasture.
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The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it to the full.
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I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd is one who lays down his life for his sheep.
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The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and the sheep do not belong to him, abandons the sheep and runs away as soon as he sees a wolf coming, and then the wolf attacks and scatters the sheep;
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this is because he is only a hired man and has no concern for the sheep.
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I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me,
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just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for my sheep.
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And there are other sheep I have that are not of this fold, and these I have to lead as well. They too will listen to my voice, and there will be only one flock, and one shepherd.
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The Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.
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No one takes it from me; I lay it down of my own free will, and as it is in my power to lay it down, so it is in my power to take it up again; and this is the command I have been given by my Father.’
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These words caused disagreement among the Jews.
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Many said, ‘He is possessed, he is raving; why bother to listen to him?’
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Others said, ‘These are not the words of a man possessed by a devil: could a devil open the eyes of the blind?’
Jesus claims to he the Son of God
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It was the time when the feast of Dedication was being celebrated in Jerusalem. It was winter,
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and Jesus was in the Temple walking up and down in the Portico of Solomon.
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The Jews gathered round him and said, ‘How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.’
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Jesus replied: ‘I have told you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name are my witness;
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but you do not believe, because you are no sheep of mine.
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The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice; I know them and they follow me.
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I give them eternal life; they will never be lost and no one will ever steal them from me.
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The Father who gave them to me is greater than anyone, and no one can steal from the Father.
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The Father and I are one.’
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The Jews fetched stones to stone him,
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so Jesus said to them, ‘I have done many good works for you to see, works from my Father; for which of these are you stoning me?’
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The Jews answered him, ‘We are not stoning you for doing a good work but for blasphemy: you are only a man and you claim to be God.’
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Jesus answered: ‘Is it not written in your Law: I said, you are gods?[*b]
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So the Law uses the word gods of those to whom the word of God was addressed, and scripture cannot be rejected.
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Yet you say to someone the Father has consecrated and sent into the world, “You are blaspheming”, because he says, “I am the son of God”.
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If I am not doing my Father’s work, there is no need to believe me;
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but if I am doing it, then even if you refuse to believe in me, at least believe in the work I do; then you will know for sure that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.’
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They wanted to arrest him then, but he eluded them.
Jesus withdraws to the other side of the Jordan
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He went back again to the far side of the Jordan to stay in the district where John had once been baptising.
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Many people who came to him there said, ‘John gave no signs, but all he said about this man was true’;
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and many of them believed in him.
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