Quotes About Faith

Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

So He said to them again, “Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.

All who came before Me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

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

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.

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

I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me,

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

I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.

The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.

Again there was division among the Jews because of Jesusí message.

Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and insane. Why would you listen to Him?”

But others replied, “These are not the words of a man possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

At that time the Feast of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

and Jesus was walking in the temple courts in Solomonís Colonnade.

So the Jews gathered around Him and demanded, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

“I already told you,” Jesus replied, “but you did not believe. The works I do in My Fatherís name testify on My behalf.

But because you are not My sheep, you refuse to believe.

My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.

My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Fatherís hand.

I and the Father are one.”

At this, the Jews again picked up stones to stone Him.

But Jesus responded, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone Me?”