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title: "John 10 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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# John 10

John 10 is chapter 10 of 21 in the Gospel of John. Here are all 42 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Christ is the door and the good shepherd. He and his Father are one.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## John 10 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. “Amen, amen, I say to you, he who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up by another way, he is a thief and a robber.
2. But he who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name, and he leads them out.
4. And when he has sent out his sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.
5. But they do not follow a stranger; instead they flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”
6. Jesus spoke this proverb to them. But they did not understand what he was saying to them.
7. Therefore, Jesus spoke to them again: “Amen, amen, I say to you, that I am the door of the sheep.
8. All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers, and the sheep did not listen to them.
9. I am the door. If anyone has entered through me, he will be saved. And he shall go in and go out, and he shall find pastures.
10. The thief does not come, except so that he may steal and slaughter and destroy. I have come so that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.
11. I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd gives his life for his sheep.
12. But the hired hand, and whoever is not a shepherd, to whom the sheep do not belong, he sees the wolf approaching, and he departs from the sheep and flees. And the wolf ravages and scatters the sheep.
13. And the hired hand flees, because he is a hired hand and there is no concern for the sheep within him.
14. I am the good Shepherd, and I know my own, and my own know me,
15. just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for my sheep.
16. And I have other sheep that are not of this fold, and I must lead them. They shall hear my voice, and there shall be one sheepfold and one shepherd.
17. For this reason, the Father loves me: because I lay down my life, so that I may take it up again.
18. No one takes it away from me. Instead, I lay it down of my own accord. And I have the power to lay it down. And I have the power to take it up again. This is the commandment that I have received from my Father.”
19. A dissension occurred again among the Jews because of these words.
20. Then many of them were saying: “He has a demon or he is insane. Why do you listen him?”
21. Others were saying: “These are not the words of someone who has a demon. How would a demon be able to open the eyes of the blind?”
22. Now it was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem, and it was winter.
23. And Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon.
24. And so the Jews surrounded him and said to him: “How long will you hold our souls in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
25. Jesus answered them: “I speak to you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in the name of my Father, these offer testimony about me.
26. But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.
27. My sheep hear my voice. And I know them, and they follow me.
28. And I give them eternal life, and they shall not perish, for eternity. And no one shall seize them from my hand.
29. What my Father gave to me is greater than all, and no one is able to seize from the hand of my Father.
30. I and the Father are one.”
31. Therefore, the Jews took up stones, in order to stone him.
32. Jesus answered them: “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”
33. The Jews answered him: “We do not stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy and because, though you are a man, you make yourself God.”
34. Jesus responded to them: “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said: you are gods?’
35. If he called those to whom the word of God was given gods, and Scripture cannot be broken,
36. why do you say, about him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You have blasphemed,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’
37. If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe in me.
38. But if I do them, even if you are not willing to believe in me, believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.”
39. Therefore, they sought to apprehend him, but he escaped from their hands.
40. And he went again across the Jordan, to that place where John first was baptizing. And he lodged there.
41. And many went out to him. And they were saying: “Indeed, John accomplished no signs.
42. But all things whatsoever that John said about this man were true.” And many believed in him.

## John 10 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Amen, amen dico vobis: qui non intrat per ostium in ovile ovium, sed ascendit aliunde, ille fur est et latro.
2. Qui autem intrat per ostium, pastor est ovium.
3. Huic ostiarius aperit, et oves vocem ejus audiunt, et proprias oves vocat nominatim, et educit eas.
4. Et cum proprias oves emiserit, ante eas vadit: et oves illum sequuntur, quia sciunt vocem ejus.
5. Alienum autem non sequuntur, sed fugiunt ab eo: quia non noverunt vocem alienorum.
6. Hoc proverbium dixit eis Jesus: illi autem non cognoverunt quid loqueretur eis.
7. Dixit ergo eis iterum Jesus: Amen, amen dico vobis, quia ego sum ostium ovium.
8. Omnes quotquot venerunt, fures sunt, et latrones, et non audierunt eos oves.
9. Ego sum ostium. Per me si quis introierit, salvabitur: et ingredietur, et egredietur, et pascua inveniet.
10. Fur non venit nisi ut furetur, et mactet, et perdat. Ego veni ut vitam habeant, et abundantius habeant.
11. Ego sum pastor bonus. Bonus pastor animam suam dat pro ovibus suis.
12. Mercenarius autem, et qui non est pastor, cujus non sunt oves propriæ, videt lupum venientem, et dimittit oves, et fugit: et lupus rapit, et dispergit oves;
13. mercenarius autem fugit, quia mercenarius est, et non pertinet ad eum de ovibus.
14. Ego sum pastor bonus: et cognosco meas, et cognoscunt me meæ.
15. Sicut novit me Pater, et ego agnosco Patrem: et animam meam pono pro ovibus meis.
16. Et alias oves habeo, quæ non sunt ex hoc ovili: et illas oportet me adducere, et vocem meam audient, et fiet unum ovile et unus pastor.
17. Propterea me diligit Pater: quia ego pono animam meam, ut iterum sumam eam.
18. Nemo tollit eam a me: sed ego pono eam a meipso, et potestatem habeo ponendi eam, et potestatem habeo iterum sumendi eam. Hoc mandatum accepi a Patre meo.
19. Dissensio iterum facta est inter Judæos propter sermones hos.
20. Dicebant autem multi ex ipsis: Dæmonium habet, et insanit: quid eum auditis?
21. Alii dicebant: Hæc verba non sunt dæmonium habentis: numquid dæmonium potest cæcorum oculos aperire?
22. Facta sunt autem Encænia in Jerosolymis, et hiems erat.
23. Et ambulabat Jesus in templo, in porticu Salomonis.
24. Circumdederunt ergo eum Judæi, et dicebant ei: Quousque animam nostram tollis? si tu es Christus, dic nobis palam.
25. Respondit eis Jesus: Loquor vobis, et non creditis: opera quæ ego facio in nomine Patris mei, hæc testimonium perhibent de me:
26. sed vos non creditis, quia non estis ex ovibus meis.
27. Oves meæ vocem meam audiunt, et ego cognosco eas, et sequuntur me:
28. et ego vitam æternam do eis, et non peribunt in æternum, et non rapiet eas quisquam de manu mea.
29. Pater meus quod dedit mihi, majus omnibus est: et nemo potest rapere de manu Patris mei.
30. Ego et Pater unum sumus.
31. Sustulerunt ergo lapides Judæi, ut lapidarent eum.
32. Respondit eis Jesus: Multa bona opera ostendi vobis ex Patre meo: propter quod eorum opus me lapidatis?
33. Responderunt ei Judæi: De bono opere non lapidamus te, sed de blasphemia; et quia tu homo cum sis, facis teipsum Deum.
34. Respondit eis Jesus: Nonne scriptum est in lege vestra, Quia ego dixi: Dii estis?
35. Si illos dixit deos, ad quos sermo Dei factus est, et non potest solvi Scriptura:
36. quem Pater sanctificavit, et misit in mundum vos dicitis: Quia blasphemas, quia dixi: Filius Dei sum?
37. Si non facio opera Patris mei, nolite credere mihi.
38. Si autem facio: etsi mihi non vultis credere, operibus credite, ut cognoscatis, et credatis quia Pater in me est, et ego in Patre.
39. Quærebant ergo eum apprehendere: et exivit de manibus eorum.
40. Et abiit iterum trans Jordanem, in eum locum ubi erat Joannes baptizans primum, et mansit illic;
41. et multi venerunt ad eum, et dicebant: Quia Joannes quidem signum fecit nullum.
42. Omnia autem quæcumque dixit Joannes de hoc, vera erant. Et multi crediderunt in eum.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 754: The Church in God's Plan ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2158: The Christian Name ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 432: Jesus ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 754: The Church in God's Plan ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 553: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 60: The Stages of Revelation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 606: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 649: On the Third Day He Rose From the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 614: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 609: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 595: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 596: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 583: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 548: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 582: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 590: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 574: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 548: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 589: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 437: Christ ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 591: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 444: The Only Son of God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1562: The Three Degrees of the Sacrament of Holy Orders ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “The glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists in beholding God.” — St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies, IV.20.7, c. 180 (On this theme: verse 10)
- “For the name of Jesus and the protection of the Church, I am ready to embrace death.” — St. Thomas Becket, Last words, as recorded by eyewitness Edward Grim, 1170 (On this theme: verse 11)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 30: “I and the Father are one” … That is, one divine nature, but two distinct persons.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Fri, Oct 30, 2026: Friday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time — Alleluia, John 10:27
- Fri, Nov 20, 2026: Friday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time — Alleluia, John 10:27
- Wed, Jan 13, 2027: Wednesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time — Alleluia, John 10:27
- Wed, Feb 3, 2027: Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time — Alleluia, John 10:27

29 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option).

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).