6 Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he meant.
7 So Jesus said again, “I am telling you the truth: I am the gate for the sheep.
8 All others who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
9 I am the gate. Whoever comes in by me will be saved; they will come in and go out and find pasture.
10 The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that you might have life — life in all its fullness.
11 “I am the good shepherd, who is willing to die for the sheep.
12 When the hired man, who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees a wolf coming, he leaves the sheep and runs away; so the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.