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  "id": "john-10-1",
  "source": "John",
  "pericope": "I am the Good Shepherd",
  "chapter": 10,
  "verse_start": 1,
  "verse_end": 21,
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    {
      "v": 1,
      "text": "“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.",
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    },
    {
      "v": 2,
      "text": "But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.",
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      "v": 3,
      "text": "The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 4,
      "text": "Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.",
      "wj": true
    },
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      "v": 5,
      "text": "They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”",
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    },
    {
      "v": 6,
      "text": "Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them."
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    {
      "v": 7,
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    {
      "v": 7,
      "text": "Jesus therefore said to them again,"
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    {
      "v": 7,
      "text": "“Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.",
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    },
    {
      "v": 8,
      "text": "All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.",
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    },
    {
      "v": 9,
      "text": "I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and will find pasture.",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 10,
      "text": "The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.",
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      "v": 11,
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      "v": 11,
      "text": "“I am the good shepherd.",
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      "v": 11,
      "text": "The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.",
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      "v": 12,
      "text": "He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.",
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      "v": 13,
      "text": "The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care for the sheep.",
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      "v": 14,
      "text": "I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;",
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    },
    {
      "v": 15,
      "text": "even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.",
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    },
    {
      "v": 16,
      "text": "I have other sheep which are not of this fold.",
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    },
    {
      "v": 16,
      "text": "I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.",
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    },
    {
      "v": 17,
      "text": "Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life,",
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    },
    {
      "v": 17,
      "text": "that I may take it again.",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 18,
      "text": "No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”",
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    {
      "v": 19,
      "break": "p"
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    {
      "v": 19,
      "text": "Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words."
    },
    {
      "v": 20,
      "text": "Many of them said, “He has a demon and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”"
    },
    {
      "v": 21,
      "text": "Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”"
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    {
      "v": 1,
      "text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 2,
      "text": "But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 3,
      "text": "To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 4,
      "text": "And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 5,
      "text": "And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 6,
      "text": "This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them."
    },
    {
      "v": 7,
      "break": "p"
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    {
      "v": 7,
      "text": "Then said Jesus unto them again,"
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    {
      "v": 7,
      "text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.",
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    },
    {
      "v": 8,
      "text": "All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 9,
      "text": "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 10,
      "text": "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.",
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      "v": 11,
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      "v": 11,
      "text": "I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.",
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    },
    {
      "v": 12,
      "text": "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.",
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    },
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      "v": 13,
      "text": "The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.",
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    },
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      "v": 14,
      "text": "I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.",
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      "v": 15,
      "text": "As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.",
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    {
      "v": 16,
      "text": "And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.",
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      "v": 17,
      "text": "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.",
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      "v": 18,
      "text": "No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.",
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      "v": 19,
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      "v": 19,
      "text": "There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings."
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      "v": 20,
      "text": "And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?"
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    {
      "v": 21,
      "text": "Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?"
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  "aland_number": 249,
  "epoch": 4,
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