John · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
John 10 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 De cierto, de cierto les digo: el que no entra por la puerta en el redil de las ovejas, sino que sube por otra parte, ese es ladrón y salteador.
1 “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.
2 Pero el que entra por la puerta es el pastor de las ovejas.
2 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 A este le abre el portero, y las ovejas oyen su voz. Él llama a sus ovejas por nombre y las saca.
3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
4 Cuando ha sacado a todas sus ovejas, va delante de ellas, y las ovejas lo siguen, porque conocen su voz.
4 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
5 Pero no seguirán a un extraño, sino que huirán de él, porque no conocen la voz de los extraños.
5 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”
6 Jesús les dijo esta comparación, pero ellos no entendieron lo que les hablaba.
6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.
7 Entonces Jesús les dijo otra vez: De cierto, de cierto les digo: yo soy la puerta de las ovejas.
7 Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.
8 Todos los que vinieron antes de mí son ladrones y salteadores; pero las ovejas no los escucharon.
8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.
9 Yo soy la puerta. El que entre por mí será salvo; entrará, saldrá y hallará pastos.
9 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and will find pasture.
10 El ladrón no viene sino para robar, matar y destruir. Yo he venido para que tengan vida, y la tengan en abundancia.
10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
11 Yo soy el buen pastor. El buen pastor da su vida por las ovejas.
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
12 Pero el asalariado, que no es el pastor y a quien no pertenecen las ovejas, ve venir al lobo, abandona las ovejas y huye. Entonces el lobo las arrebata y las dispersa.
12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.
13 El asalariado huye porque es asalariado, y no le importan las ovejas.
13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care for the sheep.
14 Yo soy el buen pastor. Conozco a mis ovejas, y mis ovejas me conocen a mí,
14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;
15 así como el Padre me conoce, y yo conozco al Padre. Y doy mi vida por las ovejas.
15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 También tengo otras ovejas que no son de este redil. A ellas también debo traerlas. Oirán mi voz, y habrá un solo rebaño y un solo pastor.
16 I have other sheep which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
17 Por eso el Padre me ama, porque yo doy mi vida para volverla a tomar.
17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
18 Nadie me la quita, sino que yo la doy por mi propia voluntad. Tengo autoridad para darla, y tengo autoridad para volverla a tomar. Este mandamiento recibí de mi Padre.
18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”
19 Volvió a haber división entre los judíos por causa de estas palabras.
19 Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.
20 Muchos de ellos decían: Tiene un demonio y está loco. ¿Por qué lo escuchan?
20 Many of them said, “He has a demon and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”
21 Otros decían: Estas no son palabras de alguien que tiene demonio. ¿Puede acaso un demonio abrir los ojos de los ciegos?
21 Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”
22 Se celebraba entonces en Jerusalén la fiesta de la Dedicación. Era invierno,
22 It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.
23 y Jesús caminaba en el templo, en el pórtico de Salomón.
23 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.
24 Entonces los judíos lo rodearon y le dijeron: ¿Hasta cuándo nos tendrás en duda? Si tú eres el Cristo, dínoslo claramente.
24 The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
25 Jesús les respondió: Ya se lo he dicho, y no creen. Las obras que yo hago en nombre de mi Padre dan testimonio de mí.
25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.
26 Pero ustedes no creen, porque no son de mis ovejas, como les dije.
26 But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
27 Mis ovejas oyen mi voz; yo las conozco, y ellas me siguen.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
28 Yo les doy vida eterna, y jamás perecerán; nadie las arrebatará de mi mano.
28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
29 Mi Padre, que me las dio, es mayor que todos; y nadie puede arrebatarlas de la mano de mi Padre.
29 My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
30 Yo y el Padre somos uno.
30 I and the Father are one.”
31 Entonces los judíos volvieron a tomar piedras para apedrearlo.
31 Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32 Jesús les respondió: Muchas buenas obras les he mostrado de parte de mi Padre. ¿Por cuál de ellas me apedrean?
32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”
33 Los judíos le respondieron: No te apedreamos por una buena obra, sino por blasfemia; porque tú, siendo hombre, te haces Dios.
33 The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
34 Jesús les respondió: ¿No está escrito en su Ley: Yo dije, ustedes son dioses?
34 Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’?
35 Si llamó dioses a aquellos a quienes vino la palabra de Dios, y la Escritura no puede ser quebrantada,
35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),
36 ¿a quien el Padre santificó y envió al mundo, ustedes le dicen: Blasfemas, porque dije: Soy Hijo de Dios?
36 do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
37 Si no hago las obras de mi Padre, no me crean.
37 If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.
38 Pero si las hago, aunque no me crean a mí, crean a las obras, para que conozcan y crean que el Padre está en mí, y yo en el Padre.
38 But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”
39 Entonces procuraron otra vez arrestarlo, pero él escapó de sus manos.
39 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.
40 Jesús volvió al otro lado del Jordán, al lugar donde Juan había bautizado al principio, y se quedó allí.
40 He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and he stayed there.
41 Muchos venían a él y decían: Juan no hizo ninguna señal, pero todo lo que Juan dijo acerca de este hombre era verdad.
41 Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.”
42 Y muchos creyeron en él allí.
42 Many believed in him there.
Cross references (41)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Matthew 7:15; John 10:8–10; 1 John 4:1; Romans 16:18; Hebrews 5:4
- 2 John 10:14; Acts 20:28; 1 Peter 5:4; Psalm 23:1; Isaiah 40:11
- 3 Ezekiel 34:11–16; 2 Timothy 2:19; John 10:4; John 10:16; Revelation 3:20
- 4 Deuteronomy 1:30; John 10:16; John 12:26; John 18:37; John 10:8
- 5 1 John 4:5–6; Colossians 2:6–10; Proverbs 19:27; Mark 4:24; 1 Peter 2:1–3
- 6 Isaiah 56:11; Psalm 82:5; Proverbs 28:5; John 16:25; Isaiah 6:9–10
- 7 John 14:6; Ephesians 2:18; John 10:1; John 10:9; Ezekiel 34:31
- 8 Ezekiel 34:2; Jeremiah 23:1; John 10:1; Ezekiel 22:25–28; Isaiah 56:10–12
- 9 John 14:6; Ephesians 2:18; John 10:7; John 10:1; Romans 5:1–2
- 10 Luke 19:10; John 6:51; John 12:47; John 3:17; John 6:33
- 11 Psalm 23:1; John 10:14–15; John 15:13; Revelation 7:17; Isaiah 40:11
- 12 2 Peter 2:3; Acts 20:29; Zechariah 11:16–17; Ezekiel 34:2–6; Matthew 10:16
- 13 Philippians 2:20; John 12:6; Acts 18:17
- 14 John 10:27; 2 Timothy 2:19; John 10:11; Ephesians 1:17; 1 John 5:20
- 15 Galatians 1:4; John 10:11; Matthew 11:27; 1 John 2:2; Isaiah 53:10
- 16 Isaiah 56:8; John 11:52; 1 Peter 2:25; Ezekiel 34:23; Ezekiel 37:24
- 17 John 10:18; John 10:15; John 10:11; Hebrews 2:9; John 15:9–10
- 18 Titus 2:14; Hebrews 2:9; John 10:17; John 2:19–21; Isaiah 53:10–12
- 19 John 9:16; 1 Corinthians 3:3; John 7:40–43; Acts 23:7–10; Acts 14:4
- 20 John 7:20; Mark 3:21; John 8:52; John 8:47–48; Matthew 9:34
- 21 Exodus 4:11; Isaiah 35:5–6; Psalm 94:9; Matthew 11:5; Exodus 8:19
- 23 Acts 5:12; Acts 3:11
- 24 John 1:19; Luke 22:67–70; John 8:53; John 8:25; Matthew 11:3
- 25 John 10:38; John 8:58; Hebrews 2:3; John 5:17–43; John 14:11
- 26 John 8:47; 2 Corinthians 4:3–4; John 12:37–40; John 6:65; John 10:27
- 27 John 10:16; John 10:14; Revelation 3:20; 1 Corinthians 8:3; John 10:3–4
- 28 John 6:39–40; John 6:37; John 3:15–16; Hebrews 7:25; John 18:9
- 29 John 6:37; John 17:2; John 17:9; John 14:28; John 17:6
- 30 John 1:1–2; John 14:9; John 17:21–23; John 5:23; John 8:58
- 31 John 5:18; John 8:59; 1 Samuel 30:6; John 11:8; Exodus 17:4
- 32 Acts 2:22; 1 John 3:12; Ecclesiastes 4:4; John 5:36; Psalm 109:4–5
- 33 John 5:18; John 10:30; Leviticus 24:16; Philippians 2:6; Psalm 82:6
- 34 Psalm 82:6–7; Exodus 7:1; Psalm 82:1; Exodus 4:16; Psalm 138:1
- 35 Matthew 24:35; Romans 13:1; Luke 16:17; Luke 24:44–46; Genesis 15:1
- 36 John 3:17; John 5:17–18; Jeremiah 1:5; John 6:27; John 10:30–33
- 37 John 15:24; John 10:25; John 10:32; John 5:31; Matthew 11:20–24
- 38 John 14:20; John 10:30; John 10:25; John 14:9–11; John 17:21–23
- 39 John 7:30; John 8:59; John 7:44; Luke 4:29–30; John 10:31
- 40 John 1:28; John 11:54; John 7:1; John 3:26
- 41 John 1:33–34; John 1:29–30; John 1:27; Matthew 14:2; Mark 1:37
- 42 John 4:41; John 12:42; John 2:23; John 11:45; John 8:30
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
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