Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
John 10:27
ἀκούουσιν for ἀκούει (grammatical correction) with אBLX against AD.
27. ‘I know Mine, and Mine know Me’ (John 10:14). Winer, p. 646.
ἀκούουσιν for ἀκούει (grammatical correction) with אBLX against AD.
27. ‘I know Mine, and Mine know Me’ (John 10:14). Winer, p. 646.
Verse 27. _MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE_] But ye _will_ not hear:- _my sheep_ _follow me_; but ye will neither follow nor acknowledge me. Any person who reads without prejudice may easily see, that our Lor...
MY SHEEP - My church, my people, those who have the true spirit of my followers. The name is given to his people because it was an illustration which would be well understood in a country abounding in...
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The Shepherd of the Sheep. (John 10:1 .)_ 2. The Good Shepherd, His Sheep and His Work. (John 10:6 .) 3. At the Feast of Dedication; the Repeated Testimony. (John 10:22 .) 4. Accuse...
THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION._ Mg.,_ At that time suggests a closer connexion with what precedes than the old reading And. But in any case the notes of time are not precise. The Feast of the Dedication...
GIVE UNTO THEM ETERNAL LIFE. I have omitted any special study of the phrase "eternal life" hitherto, although it has several times occurred in John. It occurs forty-four times in the New Testament, an...
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP (John 10:1-6)...
It was the Festival of the Dedication in Jerusalem. It was wintry weather, and Jesus was walking in the Temple precincts in Solomon's Porch. So the Jews surrounded him. "How long, they said to him, "a...
AND. Fig, _Polysyndeton._ App-6....
The Discourse at the Feast of the Dedication Again we seem to have a gap in the narrative. Between John 10:21 (but see below) there is an interval of about two months; for the Feast of Tabernacles wo...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
Note the simple but very impressive coupling of the clauses by a simple -and" throughout and comp. John 10:3_; John 10:12_: note also the climax....
Ver 22. And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. 23. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. 24. Then came the Jews round about him, and said to him, How long...
_JESUS WAS REJECTED BY THE JEWS -- JOHN 10:22-38:_ That winter, Jesus was in Jerusalem for the feast of the dedication. In Solomon's Porch the people gathered all around Him. They asked Jesus to tell...
ΆΚΟΛΟΥΘΟΫ́ΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΆΚΟΛΟΥΘΈΩ (G190) следовать, здесь в _знач._ "повиноваться". _Praes._ является привычным или обыденным. Это действие, которое ожидается от паствы....
DISCOURSE: 1665 SECURITY OF CHRIST’S SHEEP John 10:27. _My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any...
BUT YE BELIEVE NOT, &C.— "The reason why you disbelieve me, is not becausethe proofs of my mission are insufficient, but because you are not of a humble teachable disposition, free from worldly passio...
CLAIMS TO DEITY _Text 10:22-31_ 22 And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: 23 it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch. 24 The Jews therefore came roun...
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, AND I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW ME. See the note at MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, AND I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW M...
3 John the baptist was the door keeper who opened the door to the true Shepherd. Many another has come claiming to be Israel's shepherd, but they did not come in God's appointed way. 4 The Eastern sh...
THE GOOD SHEPHERD. THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION 1-18. Allegories of the Fold and of the Good Shepherd. This chapter continues Christ's discourse to His Pharisaic disciples begun at John 9:39. His words...
JESUS AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION. As there is no statement that Jesus went up to Jerusalem, it is fair to infer that Jesus spent the two months between the Feast of Tabernacles and that of the Ded...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 10 JESUS TELLS A STORY ABOUT A *SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP 10:1-10 V1 Jesus said, ‘I tell you the truth. Only thieves climb...
The reference to those who believe not because they were not of His sheep, introduces the contrast between them and those who were, and the position of the true members of the flock is expanded in thi...
CHAPTER 22 JESUS, SON OF GOD. “And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch. The Jews therefore came round about Him, and...
_Sayings of Jesus at the Feast of Dedication_....
OUR ASSURANCE OF SAFE-KEEPING John 10:19-30 Our Lord did not shrink from the avowal of His divine origin and glory, when there was need or when they were challenged. See John 4:26; Matthew 26:64. For...
Continuing, He gave a more detailed picture of that coming order. There was to be a fold, with a door. There was to be a flock, with a shepherd. Entrance to the fold would be by the door. The flock wo...
Christ here says that his sheep hear his voice, and follow him: but let us ask ourselves, Do we cling close to this heavenly shepherd? Do we follow him, both by our faith and by our lives? Do we know...
CHAPTER 8. THE GOOD SHEPHERD John 10:1-29. “ _Truly_, _truly_, _I say unto you_, _The one not coming in through the door_, _but climbing up some other way_, _he is a thief and a robber_.” It is subse...
“ _My sheep hear my voice, and I know them; and they follow me_ 28 _and I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish and no one shall snatch them out of my hand._ ” _ Luthardt_ has divided...
THIRD SECTION: 10:22-42. THE SECOND DISCOURSE. In chap. John 7:19-24, we have seen Jesus return, in a discourse pronounced at the feast of Tabernacles, to the fact of the healing of the impotent man ...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 22-32. 1. The argument presented by Godet, as against Meyer, Weiss and others, seems satisfactory as showing that Jesus probably left Jerusalem and its ne...
SECOND PART: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNBELIEF IN ISRAEL. 5:1- 12:50. UP to this point, decided faith and unbelief have been only exceptional phenomena; the masses have remained in a state of passive indiff...
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: (28) And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. (29) My Father which...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
27._My sheep hear my voice. _He proves by an argument drawn from contraries, that they are not _sheep_, because they do not obey the Gospel. For God effectually calls all whom he has elected, so that...
In chapter 10 He contrasts Himself with all those who pretended, or had pretended, to be shepherds of Israel. He develops these three points; He comes in by the door; He is the door; and He is the She...
MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE,.... The voice of Christ in his Gospel, both externally and internally; John 10:4, John 10:16; and since therefore these Jews did not, it was a plain case they were not of his...
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: Ver. 27. _My sheep hear my voice_] Buxtorf in his "Tiberius" noteth, that theJeremiah 21:7; consisteth of 42 words and of a 160 letters. I...
_My sheep hear my voice_, &c. Our Lord still alludes to the discourse he had had before this festival. As if he had said, My sheep are those who, 1st, _Hear my voice_ by faith; 2d, Are _known_ (that i...
MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, AND I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW ME;...
CHRIST'S SERMON AT THE FEAST OF DEDICATION. The testimony of Jesus concerning Himself:...
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE SHEPHERD (vs.1-18) Now the Lord speaks in parabolic form, again in verse 1 doubly pressing the truth of His words. One climbing the fence of the sheepfold (rather then entering...
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...
This is the same which he said: SEE POOLE ON "1 THESSALONIANS 10:4"....
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI -deemed worthy of another fold and mansion, in proportion to their faith. "But My sheep hear My voice,"[201] Tertullian On Modesty , who up to that time had n...
John 10:27 My G1699 sheep G4263 hear G191 (G5719) My G3450 voice G5456 I G2504 know G1097 ...
THE FEAST OF DEDICATION (JOHN 10:22)....
“But you do not believe because you are not of my sheep. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them and they follow me. And I give to them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will be abl...
John 10:27-28. My SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, AND I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW ME: AND I GIVE UNTO THEM ETERNAL LIFE; AND THEY SHALL NEVER PERISH, NEITHER SHALL ANY ONE PLUCK THEM OUT OF MY HAND. In these ve...
The contest with the Jews is continued. The section strikingly illustrates the plan of the gospel (1) by taking up again that claim of Jesus to be the Son of God which had, more than anything else, pr...
MY SHEEP (τα προβατα τα εμα). In contrast with you they are not in doubt and suspense. They know my voice and follow me. Repetition of the idea in John 10:4; John 10:14....
John 10:1. _Verily, verily, I say unto you,_ Now we may be absolutely certain that there is something of the utmost importance wherever Christ uses the solemn asseveration of «Verily, verily,» the sa...
John 10:1. _Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber._ The positiveness of our Lord's teac...
CONTENTS: Discourse on the Good Shepherd. Jesus' deity asserted. CHARACTERS: Jesus, God. CONCLUSION: God, our great owner, the sheep of whose pasture we are by creation, has constituted His Son, Jes...
John 10:1. _He that entereth not by the door is a thief and a robber._ After the scribes had formed a plot against the life of the good shepherd, he told them that they were not the children of Abraha...
I GIVE THEM ETERNAL LIFE. Not just eternal existence, but eternal happiness! All will live forever, but not all will share God's promise (see John 5:28-29 and notes)....
_Then came the Jews round about Him_ THE SCENE AND CIRCUMSTANCES Here in this bright colonnade, decked for the feast with glittering trophies, Jesus was walking up and down, quietly, and apparently w...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 10:26 The reason people do not believe is BECAUSE they ARE NOT AMONG Jesus’ SHEEP. God must first give them the ability to believe; then he makes them a part of his
1-41 CHAPTER 10 VER. 1. _Verily, verily_ (that is in truth, most truly and most assuredly), _I say unto you, He that entereth not_, &c. He puts forth this parable to show who He is, and who are His ri...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 10:22. _Our Lord’s utterances at the feast of dedication on His oneness with the Father, etc._—This feast (τὰ ἐγκαίνια—the Encænia) was post-exilic in its origin....
EXPOSITION JOHN 10:1 5. _Christ the Shepherd of the flock of God_._ _The discourse which now follows was the Lord's parabolic or allegoric reply to the conduct of the Pharisaic malignants. These men...
So chapter 10, it would seem to be as just a continuation of this whole movement here of the blind man receiving his sight, being put out by the organized religious system, being taken in by Jesus Chr...
1 Corinthians 8:3; 1 Kings 18:21; 2 Timothy 2:19; Acts 3:23; Gala
My sheep [τ α π ρ ο β α τ α τ α ε μ α]. Literally, the sheep, those that are mine. A characteristic form of expression with John. Compare John 3:29; John 5:30; John 14:15, etc....
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, &c. — Our Lord still alludes to the discourse he had before this festival. As if he had said, My sheep are they who, Hear my voice by faith...
Here observe, 1. That all sincere and faithful Christians are Christ's sheep, and he is their great and good shepherd. This relation implies tender affection, powerful protection, and plentiful provis...