²¹ For this reason, of the men who have been with us all the time, while the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

¹⁷ To go out and come in before them and be their guide; so that the people of the Lord may not be like sheep without a keeper.

² Then he said to them, I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to go out and come in: and the Lord has said to me, You are not to go over Jordan.

²⁷ And you, in addition, will give witness because you have been with me from the first.

² In the past when Saul was king over us, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in: and the Lord said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel and their ruler.

⁷ And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.

¹ Now after these things, the Lord made selection of seventy others and sent them before him, two together, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.

² And he said to them, There is much grain ready to be cut, but not enough workers: so make prayer to the Lord of the grain-fields that he will send workers to get in the grain.

¹ Truly I say to you, He who does not go through the door into the place where the sheep are kept, but gets in by some other way, is a thief and an outlaw.

² He who goes in by the door is the keeper of the sheep.

³ The porter lets him in; and the sheep give ear to his voice; he says over the names of the sheep, and takes them out.

⁴ When he has got them all out, he goes before them, and the sheep go after him, for they have knowledge of his voice.

⁵ They will not go after another who is not their keeper, but will go from him in flight, because his voice is strange to them.

⁶ In this Jesus was teaching them in the form of a story: but what he said was not clear to them.

⁷ So Jesus said again, Truly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

⁸ All who came before me are thieves and outlaws: but the sheep did not give ear to them.

⁹ I am the door: if any man goes in through me he will have salvation, and will go in and go out, and will get food.