John 10 is the tenth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The author of the book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that John composed this Gospel. This chapter records Jesus' description of himself as the "door of the sheep" and the "Good Shepherd", and contains the only mention of Hanukkah, "the Feast of Dedication", in the New Testament. Text The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 42 verses. Textual witnesses Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are: Papyrus 75 (AD 175–225) Papyrus 66 (~ 200) Codex Vaticanus (325-350) Papyrus 6 (~ 350; extant: Greek verses 1–2, 4–7, 9–10; Coptic verses 1–12, 20) Codex Sinaiticus (330-360) Codex Bezae (~ 400) Codex Alexandrinus (400-440) Old Testament references : Psalm Places Events recorded in this chapter refer to the following locations: Jerusalem () The east bank of Jordan River, the place where John the Baptist was baptizing at first. () The true shepherd illustration In verses , Jesus uses a parable, illustration or "figure of speech" regarding the manner in which a true shepherd enters his sheepfold, through the door or the gate, unlike the manner of a thief or a stranger. H. W. Watkins notes that "the word rendered 'parable' is the wider word (, paroimia) which includes every kind of figurative and proverbial teaching, every kind of speech ... which departs from the usual course (, oimos)". The word παραβολα (parabola) is not used in John's Gospel. The narrative is introduced "very truly" or "most assuredly". Jesus' audience ("they", verse 6) 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 ()" (). The alternative way in, taken by the thief or stranger, is to "climb up some other way", i.e. to climb over the wall of the sheepfold. In its reference to the shepherd leading the flock out of the sheepfold, verse 3 has the only occurrence of the word ἐξάγει (exagei) in the New Testament, Heinrich Meyer and Alford both connect this pericope with John 9:35-41. The Ethiopic version adds "and loves them" to verse 3. The door of the sheep and the good shepherd Jesus describes himself in and as "the door" and in and as "the good shepherd".