6 יהושע used this figure of speech, but they did not know what He had been saying to them.
7 יהושע therefore said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
8 “All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
9 “I am the door. Whoever enters through Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and shall go out and find pasture.
10 “The thief does not come except to steal, and to slaughter, and to destroy. I have come that they might possess life, and that they might possess it beyond measure.
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
12 “But the hireling, and not being a shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees. And the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.