* The parable of the good shepherd. (1-5) Christ the Door. (6-9)
Christ the good Shepherd. (10-18) The Jews' opinion concerning Jesus.
(19-21) His discourse at the feast of dedication. (22-30) The Jews
attempt to stone Jesus. (31-38) He departs from Jerusalem. (39-42)... [ Continue Reading ]
1-5 Here is a parable or similitude, taken from the customs of the
East, in the management of sheep. Men, as creatures depending on their
Creator, are called the sheep of his pasture. The church of God in the
world is as a sheep-fold, exposed to deceivers and persecutors. The
great Shepherd of the s... [ Continue Reading ]
6-9 Many who hear the word of Christ, do not understand it, because
they will not. But we shall find one scripture expounding another, and
the blessed Spirit making known the blessed Jesus. Christ is the Door.
And what greater security has the church of God than that the Lord
Jesus is between it and... [ Continue Reading ]
10-18 Christ is a good Shepherd; many who were not thieves, yet were
careless in their duty, and by their neglect the flock was much hurt.
Bad principles are the root of bad practices. The Lord Jesus knows
whom he has chosen, and is sure of them; they also know whom they have
trusted, and are sure o... [ Continue Reading ]
19-21 Satan ruins many, by putting them out of conceit with the word
and ordinances. Men would not be laughed out of their necessary food,
yet suffer themselves thus to be laughed out of what is far more
necessary. If our zeal and earnestness in the cause of Christ,
especially in the blessed work of... [ Continue Reading ]
22-30 All who have any thing to say to Christ, may find him in the
temple. Christ would make us to believe; we make ourselves doubt. The
Jews understood his meaning, but could not form his words into a full
charge against him. He described the gracious disposition and happy
state of his sheep; they... [ Continue Reading ]
31-38 Christ's works of power and mercy proclaim him to be over all,
God blessed for evermore, that all may know and believe He is in the
Father, and the Father in Him. Whom the Father sends, he sanctifies.
The holy God will reward, and therefore will employ, none but such as
he makes holy. The Fath... [ Continue Reading ]
39-42 No weapon formed against our Lord Jesus shall prosper. He
escaped, not because he was afraid to suffer, but because his hour was
not come. And He who knew how to deliver himself, knows how to deliver
the godly our of their temptations, and to make a way for them to
escape. Persecutors may driv... [ Continue Reading ]