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John 10 — Greek text and reception

Saints Translation: John 1–21 [V2]

Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.

Chapter 10

The good Shepherd and the feast of Dedication

Verse 10:1

Greek–English Saints Priority

“Amen, amen, I tell you: the one who does not enter the sheepfold through the door, but climbs in from elsewhere, is a thief and a robber.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: κλέπτης and λῃστής are both retained, thief and robber. The illustration’s sheepfold is αὐλή, an enclosure. Reception: A045 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:2

Greek–English Saints Priority

But the one who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Entering by the door identifies the shepherd in contrast to the intruder of 10:1. Reception: A045 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:3

Greek–English Saints Priority

To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The doorkeeper, shepherd and sheep have distinct actions; the shepherd’s calling is by name. Reception: A045 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:4

Greek–English Saints Priority

When he has brought all his own out, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The shepherd goes ahead, and the sheep follow because they recognize his voice. Reception: A045 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:5

Greek–English Saints Priority

But they will certainly not follow a stranger; rather, they will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Their response to an unfamiliar voice is both refusal to follow and flight. Reception: A045 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:6

Greek–English Saints Priority

Jesus spoke this figure of speech to them, but they did not understand what the things were that He was speaking to them.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: παροιμία is a figure of speech or figurative saying, distinct from the usual παραβολή term for parable. Reception: A045 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:7

Greek–English Saints Priority

So Jesus spoke to them again: “Amen, amen, I tell you that I am the door of the sheep.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Jesus explicitly identifies Himself with the door, before the separate shepherd identification. Reception: A045 (see the passage reception register).

Textual: NA28 reads εἶπεν οὖν πάλιν ὁ Ἰησοῦς (SBLGNT εἶπεν οὖν πάλιν αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “So Jesus spoke again” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).

Verse 10:8

Greek–English Saints Priority

All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The source includes ‘before Me.’ No limiting adjective such as false is inserted; the scope of ‘all who came’ must be read through the shepherd-and-thief contrast. Reception: A045 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:9

Greek–English Saints Priority

I am the door. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and find pasture.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Entering through Jesus leads to salvation, free movement and pasture within the pastoral image. Reception: A045 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:10

Greek–English Saints Priority

The thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy. I came so that they may have life and have abundance.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: θύσῃ is slaughter, distinct from stealing and destroying. περισσόν expresses abundance; the text does not define it as a promise of material wealth. Reception: A045 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:11

Greek–English Saints Priority

I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: καλός is good, noble, or beautiful according to context; good preserves the repeated designation. ψυχή is life here, with its laying down repeated through verse eighteen. Reception: A046 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:12

Greek–English Saints Priority

The hired worker, who is not a shepherd and whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees—and the wolf seizes them and scatters them—

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: μισθωτός is a hired worker, distinct from a slave. The sheep’s ownership and the worker’s flight are both explicit. Reception: A046 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:13

Greek–English Saints Priority

because he is a hired worker and has no care for the sheep.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The lack of care explains the hired worker’s flight across the parenthesis in 10:12. Reception: A046 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:14

Greek–English Saints Priority

I am the good Shepherd, and I know My own, and My own know Me,

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The base states that Jesus’ own know Him, not a passive ‘I am known’ formulation. Reception: A047 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:15

Greek–English Saints Priority

just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Mutual Father–Son knowledge supplies the comparison, followed by Jesus’ voluntary life-giving. Reception: A047 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:16

Greek–English Saints Priority

And I have other sheep that are not from this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice, and they will become one flock, one shepherd.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The first noun is αὐλή, fold, and the resulting unity is ποίμνη, flock. The source does not say ‘one fold’ at the end. It does not name the other sheep’s group in this verse. Reception: A047 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:17

Greek–English Saints Priority

For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life, so that I may take it again.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The purpose ‘so that I may take it again’ is retained alongside laying down His life. Reception: A047 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:18

Greek–English Saints Priority

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down from Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. This command I received from My Father.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The repeated authority includes both laying down life and taking it again; the command comes from the Father. Reception: A047 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:19

Greek–English Saints Priority

Division arose again among the Jews because of these words.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The renewed division is caused by Jesus’ sayings and occurs within the Jewish hearers. Reception: A047 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:20

Greek–English Saints Priority

Many of them said, “He has a demon and is mad. Why do you listen to Him?”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Demon-possession and madness are hostile allegations, not the narrator’s judgments. Reception: A047 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:21

Greek–English Saints Priority

Others said, “These are not the words of a demon-possessed person. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Other hearers challenge those allegations by appealing to His words and the opened eyes. Reception: A047 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:22

Greek–English Saints Priority

Then the feast of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: ἐγκαίνια names Dedication; the season is explicitly winter. The text is not expanded with a retelling of the festival’s origin. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:23

Greek–English Saints Priority

and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s Portico.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Solomon’s Portico identifies the location within the temple precincts. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:24

Greek–English Saints Priority

So the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him, “How long will You keep our soul in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us openly.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The idiom literally asks about lifting or carrying off ‘our soul.’ ‘Keep our soul in suspense’ expresses the contextual request for a plain declaration while preserving the singular shared expression. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:25

Greek–English Saints Priority

Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works I do in My Father’s name bear witness concerning Me.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Jesus appeals to both prior speech and works performed in His Father’s name. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:26

Greek–English Saints Priority

But you do not believe, because you are not from My sheep.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The source gives the reason as not being from His sheep; it does not reverse the causal order. No additional ‘as I told you’ clause is present. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:27

Greek–English Saints Priority

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The sheep’s hearing and following are joined with Jesus’ knowledge of them. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:28

Greek–English Saints Priority

And I give them eternal life, and they will certainly never perish, and no one will snatch them from My hand.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The life-gift, emphatic denial of perishing and security from snatching are three coordinated promises. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:29

Greek–English Saints Priority

My Father, in regard to what He has given Me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch from the Father’s hand.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The live official electronic text reads ὁ πατήρ μου ὃ δέδωκέν μοι πάντων μεῖζων ἐστίν, combining neuter ὃ with masculine μεῖζων. The rendering provisionally treats the relative clause as an accusative of respect, “in regard to what He has given Me.” This confirms the selected file’s wording, not a resolution of its grammatical or textual difficulty; ὃς and μεῖζον are not substituted. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Textual: NA28 reads ὃ δέδωκέν μοι πάντων μεῖζόν ἐστιν (SBLGNT ὃ δέδωκέν μοι πάντων μείζων ἐστίν); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “What My Father has given Me is greater than all” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).

Verse 10:30

Greek–English Saints Priority

I and the Father are one.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: ἕν is neuter, ‘one,’ with plural ‘are.’ The rendering does not add a noun such as person or essence. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:31

Greek–English Saints Priority

Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: “Again” links the renewed attempt at stoning with the earlier threat. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Textual: NA28 reads ἐβάστασαν πάλιν (SBLGNT ἐβάστασαν οὖν πάλιν); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “The Jews took up stones again” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).

Verse 10:32

Greek–English Saints Priority

Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father. For which work among them do you stone Me?”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Jesus asks which Father-derived good work provides the alleged reason for stoning. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:33

Greek–English Saints Priority

The Jews answered Him, “We do not stone You for a good work, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a man, make Yourself God.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The accusation is making Himself God. The source’s predicate θεόν is retained without reducing it to a different claim. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:34

Greek–English Saints Priority

Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The citation says ‘gods’ in the plural; its referents are not identified by an added phrase. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:35

Greek–English Saints Priority

If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The parenthetical assertion that Scripture cannot be broken is retained within the argument. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:36

Greek–English Saints Priority

do you say to the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: ἡγίασεν is sanctified or consecrated. The source explicitly joins the Father’s sanctification and sending into the world. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:37

Greek–English Saints Priority

If I do not do My Father’s works, do not believe Me.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The conditional permits testing His claim against His Father’s works. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:38

Greek–English Saints Priority

But if I do them, even if you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and continue to know that the Father is in Me and I in the Father.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The base has γνῶτε καὶ γινώσκητε, rendered know and continue to know, rather than replacing the second verb with believe. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:39

Greek–English Saints Priority

So they sought again to seize Him, and He went out from their hand.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The attempt to seize Him fails; the idiom retains release from their hand without supplying a method. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:40

Greek–English Saints Priority

And He went away again beyond the Jordan, to the place where John was first baptizing, and remained there.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The return beyond the Jordan explicitly recalls John’s first baptismal location. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:41

Greek–English Saints Priority

Many came to Him and said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything John said concerning this man was true.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The speakers’ contrast between John’s lack of a sign and the truth of his testimony is preserved. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 10:42

Greek–English Saints Priority

And many believed in Him there.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The final “there” places this belief beyond the Jordan, contrasting with the preceding hostility. Reception: A048 (see the passage reception register).