John 10

John 10
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Fragments of Papyrus 44 (6th/7th-century) containing Matthew 25:8-10; John 10:8-14. Metropolitan Museum of Art 14.1.527, New York City.
Book	Gospel of John
Bible part	New Testament
Order in the Bible part	4
Category	Gospel

John 10 is the tenth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the sermon of Jesus Christ about Him being the "Good Shepherd" and contains the only mention of Hanukkah, the Feast of Dedication, in the New Testament. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that John composed this Gospel.

Events recorded in this chapter refer to the following locations:

The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows:

In verses 1-5, Jesus uses a parable, illustration or "figure of speech" regarding the manner in which a true shepherd enters his sheepfold, unlike the manner of a thief or a stranger. Anglican Bishop Charles Ellicott notes that "the word rendered 'parable' is the wider word (Greek: παροιμία, paroimia) which includes every kind of figurative and proverbial teaching, every kind of speech, as the etymology reminds us, which departs from the usual course (Greek: οῑμος, oimos)". Jesus' audience ("they") did not understand.

In this illustration, the true shepherd "enters the sheepfold by the door" and "calls his own sheep by name and leads them out (Greek: ἐξάγει αὐτά)" (John 10:1,3). This is the only occurrence of the word ἐξάγει (exagei) in the New Testament. The Ethiopic version adds "and loves them".