10. The thief comes not, but 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 gives his life for the sheep.
12. But he that is a hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep.
13. The hireling flees, because he is a hireling, and cares not for the sheep.
14. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
15. As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.