A moment in scripture
John 10:11
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I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
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The surrounding passage
- John 10:9
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
- John 10:10
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.
- John 10:12
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.
- John 10:13
The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.