Jn 10:1-6

The Good Shepherd. 1^* “Amen, amen, I say to you,^a whoever does not enter a sheepfold^* through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber. 2But whoever enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice, as he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4^* When he has driven out all his own, he walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him,^b because they recognize his voice. 5But they will not follow a stranger; they will run away from him, because they do not recognize the voice of strangers.” 6Although Jesus used this figure of speech,^* they did not realize what he was trying to tell them.