So Jesus said again, “Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the gate for the sheep.
Know that the Lord is God, he made us, we belong to him, we are his people, the flock he shepherds.
Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise.
For he is our God, we are the people he shepherds, the sheep in his hands. Oh, that today you would hear his voice:
We had all gone astray like sheep, all following our own way; But the Lord laid upon him the guilt of us all.
Yes, you are my flock: you people are the flock of my pasture, and I am your God—oracle of the Lord God.
Like sheep for sacrifice, like the sheep of Jerusalem on its feast days, the ruined cities shall be filled with flocks of people; then they shall know that I am the Lord.
“Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber.
I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
for through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.