John

"I tell you a true, true saying: Anyone who does not enter the sheep pen through the door, but instead goes in from another place, is a thief and a plunderer.

Whoever enters through the door is the shepherd.

The doorkeeper opens the door to him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his sheep by their names and leads them outside.

After the sheep go out, he walks in front of them. They follow him because they know his voice.

They do not follow a stranger, but they turn away from him and flee. That is because they do not know the voice of a stranger."

Isa told them this story, but they did not understand what he meant.

Isa told them, "I tell you a true, true saying: I am the door of the sheep.

Everyone who came before me were thieves and robbers. But the sheep did not listen to them.

I am the door. Whoever enters through me will be safe. He will come in and go out and find pasture.

The thief comes only to plunder, kill, and destroy. I came to give them life, abundant life.

I am the good shepherd, who sacrifices his life as a ransom for the sheep.

The paid worker, who is not the shepherd or the owner of the sheep, abandons the sheep and flees as soon as he sees the wolf coming. So the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

That happens because he is a paid worker, and he does not care for the sheep.

I am the good shepherd. I know my flock, and my flock knows me.

Al-Malik Al-Wadud knows me and I know Al-Malik Al-Wadud, too. And I sacrifice my life as a ransom for the sheep.

I have other sheep that are not in this sheep pen. I must bring them, and they will listen to my voice. Then the sheep will all be one flock belonging to one shepherd.

This is why Al-Malik Al-Wadud loves me, because I sacrifice my life so I can recover it.

No one will kill me. I will sacrifice my life completely of my own will. I have the authority to sacrifice it, and I have the authority to regain it. This is a command sent down on me from my Malik Al-Wadud."

The Yahudi leaders again differed about these words.

A group of them said, "He is crazy, and he has been touched by jinn. Why do you listen to him?"

However, another group said, "These words are not from the touch of a jinni. Can a jinni open the eyes of a man born blind?"

Then it was time for the Eid of dedication of the house of Allah in Al-Quds. It was winter.

Isa was walking around in the house of Allah, in the corridor of Sulayman.

The Yahudi leaders surrounded him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the expected Al-Masih, tell us clearly."

Isa answered, "I told you, and you did not believe me, even though the miracles that I did in the name of my Malik Al-Wadud are a shahada to me.

But you do not believe me, because you are not my sheep.

My sheep listen to my voice, I know them, and they follow me.

I gave them eternal spiritual life, and they will never be destroyed. No one can grab them from my hand.

My Malik Al-Wadud, who gave them to me, is greater than all. No one can grab them from the hand of Al-Malik Al-Rahman.

I and Al-Malik Al-Wadud are one.

The Yahudi leaders again picked up stones to stone him.

Isa answered them, "I have shown you great ayat and miracles of Al-Malik Al-Rahman. Which ayah do you want to kill me for?"

The Yahudi leaders answered him, "We will not kill you for miracles and ayat, but for shirk. You are a man, and you make yourself a Rabb."

Isa said to them, "Did Allah not reveal in the Zabur: I named you all arbab?

Allah called those to whom his word was revealed arbab, and there is no substituting the words of the kitab.

So how can you accuse the one whom Al-Malik Al-Wadud has chosen and sent to all people of shirk because I said: I am the beloved Amir of Allah?

If I do not do the ayat and miracles of my Malik Al-Wadud, do not believe me.

But if I do them, believe me because of them, even if you will not believe me. Then you will understand and believe that Al-Malik Al-Wadud is in me and I am in Al-Malik Al-Wadud."

They tried to arrest him, but he went out from among them.

Then he crossed the Jordan River again and remained in the place where Yahya had immersed at first.

Many people gathered around him and said, "Yahya did no ayah, but his shahada about Isa was completely true."

Many people believed in him there.