Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
John 10:7
I am the door of the sheep] i.e. 'I alone can endue pastors and teachers with spiritual authority over the flock of God.' In John 10:9 Christ calls Himself 'the door' in a wider sense.
I am the door of the sheep] i.e. 'I alone can endue pastors and teachers with spiritual authority over the flock of God.' In John 10:9 Christ calls Himself 'the door' in a wider sense.
JOHN 10:7 h` qu,ra The reading o` poimh,n (î75 copsa, ach, mf) is an early alleviation of the text, introduced by copyists who found the expression “the door of the sheep” too difficult....
Verse John 10:7. _I AM THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP._] It is through me only that a man can have a lawful entrance into the ministry; and it is through me alone that mankind can be saved. Instead of, _I am t...
I AM THE DOOR - I am the way by which ministers and people enter the true church. It is by his merits, his intercession, his aid, and his appointment that they enter. OF THE SHEEP - Of the church....
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...
JOHN 10. THE CLOSE OF THE MINISTRY IN JERUSALEM. [85] John 10:1. The Good Shepherd. The first part of this chapter records Jesus-' teaching on true and false leadership. In John 10:1 we have a close r...
AM THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP. Verses 1-5, speak of shepherds in general. These shepherds enter into the fold and go out by the same door as the sheep. Christ is that door; _the Door of the sheep,_ the on...
So Jesus said to them again: "This is the truth I tell you--I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If any man...
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP (John 10:1-6)...
THEN. Therefore. I SAY... I AM. I say... that. am, &c.; _hoti,_ putting the words that follow as. quotation. See App-173. OF. for. Of the sheep, not of the fold....
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...
_Then said Jesus unto them again_ Better, THEREFORE _said Jesus again_. They did not understand; _therefore_He went through the allegory _again_more explicitly, interpreting the main features. -Unto t...
"The form of the discourse in the first half of chap. 10 is remarkable. It resembles the Synoptic parables, but not exactly. The parable is a short narrative, which is kept wholly separate from the id...
THE ALLEGORY OF THE DOOR OF THE FOLD...
1–18. “The form of the discourse in the first half of chap. 10 is remarkable. It resembles the Synoptic parables, but not exactly. The parable is a short narrative, which is kept wholly separate from...
ΕἾΠΕΝ ΟΥ̓͂Ν. _Jesus_ THEREFORE _said again_. Because they did not understand He went through it again, explaining the main features. ἈΜῊΝ�. This is _the_ important point: the one Door, through which b...
VER 7. THEN SAID JESUS TO THEM AGAIN, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY TO YOU, I AM THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP. 8. ALL THAT EVER CAME BEFORE ME ARE THIEVES AND ROBBERS: BUT THE SHEEP DID NOT HEAR THEM. 9. I AM THE DO...
ΘΎΡΑ (G2374) дверь, ворота. Иисус — это врата, через которые проходят овцы, это единственная дверь, через которую люди могут войти в овцам (Hoskyns). ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΒΆΤΩΝ _gen. pl. от_ ΠΡΌΒΑΤΟΝ (G4263) овца....
I AM THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP.— As our Lord's parable was not understood, he graciously proceeds to explain it to his audience; and in the first place he informs them, that by the door he meant himself....
THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP _Text 10:1-10_ 1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber....
EXPOSITORY SERMON NO. TEN THE SHEPHERD AND THE SHEEP John 10:1-16 _INTRODUCTION_ I. WHY DID JESUS USE THIS ALLEGORY? A. The Jewish rulers and Pharisees had just exhibited themselves as hirelings...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 10:1-10. Below is an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:- Our passage begins with "Verily, verily, I say unto you." The antecedent of the you is f...
Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. THEN SAID JESUS UNTO THEM AGAIN, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, I AM THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP - that is, T...
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...
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...
THEN SAID JESUS UNTO THEM AGAIN. — Better, _Therefore said Jesus again,_ the words “unto them” being of uncertain authority. He says what follows because they did not understand what He had said befor...
CHAPTER 21 JESUS THE GOOD SHEPHERD. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But...
to John 10:21. _The good and the hireling shepherds_....
JESUS THE GOOD SHEPHERD John 10:7-18 He who came in by the door which John the Baptist opened has become the door. It stands open to all comers- _if any man._ The salvation here mentioned refers to...
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...
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...
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...
“ _Jesus therefore spoke to them again, saying, Verily, verily I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep._ 8. _All those who came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not listen to th...
SECOND SECTION: 10:1-21. THE FIRST DISCOURSE. The following discourse includes three parables: that of the _shepherd_ (John 10:1-6), that of the _gate_ (John 10:7-10), and that of the _good shepherd_...
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. (2) But he that entereth in by the door is the sh...
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...
7._I am the door. _If this explanation had not been added, the whole discourse would have been allegorical. He now explains more clearly what was the chief part of the parable when he declares that _h...
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...
THEN SAID JESUS UNTO THEM AGAIN,.... By way of explanation of the above parable, since they did not understand it: VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU; this is certainly truth, and what may be depended on...
Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. Ver. 7. _I am the door_] Heaven door, so Christ is pleased to call himself, because "through him we have a...
_This parable spake Jesus: but they understood not_, &c. In this symbolical way Jesus taught the Pharisees the difference between true and false teachers; but they did not understand the meaning of wh...
I AM THE DOOR; as the Father is the door to Christ, so he himself is the door to the under-shepherds and to all the sheep. Through him alone can men enter his church or the ministry which he has appoi...
THEN SAID JESUS UNTO THEM AGAIN, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, I AM THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP....
Jesus the Door to the sheepfold:...
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...
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...
Our Saviour had before been speaking of _the door_ in another notion; there he spake of the door of the shepherd; here, of the door of the sheep: there, of the door, that is, the true and regular way...
Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V For as he brought down from above the paternal marks, so again he carries up from thence those marks roused from a dormant condition and rendered paternal...
John 10:7 Then G3767 Jesus G2424 said G2036 (G5627) them G846 again G3825 Most G281 assuredly G281 say...
‘Jesus therefore said to them again, “In very truth I tell you, I am the doorway of the sheep.” He has made it plain that there is only one way in and out on the pathway of true life, the God-provided...
THE GOOD SHEPHERD AND THE FALSE SHEPHERDS (JOHN 10:1). The way that the parable opens emphasises the fact that the parable is as much about the false shepherds as it is about the true. It is a studie...
John 10:7. JESUS THEREFORE SAID UNTO THEM AGAIN, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, I AM THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP. The formula which introduced the parable (John 10:1) now brings in the interpretation. This...
The blind man, restored to sight, is brought before the Pharisees with the view of instituting proceedings against Jesus, who, by the healing on the Sabbath, had violated the sanctity of the day of re...
THEREFORE AGAIN (ουν παλιν). Jesus repeats the allegory with more detail and with more directness of application. Repeating a story is not usually an exhilarating experience.I AM THE DOOR OF THE SH...
I AM THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP The shepherd work of our Lord has three aspects: (1) As the "Good" Shepherd He gives His life for the sheep (John 10:11) and is, therefore, "the door" by which "if any man...
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. But he that entereth in by the door i...
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 AM THE DOOR FOR THE SHEEP. He is the ONE DOOR for all, both sheep and shepherds....
_He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold_ SHEPHERDHOOD The simple lesson which our Lord intended to teach in this familiar passage has often been strangely mistaken. The minds of men hav...
A WONDERFUL DOOR I am the door of the sheep. John 10:7. I want to speak to you today about doors. Perhaps you will think that is a odd subject for a sermon. Doors are such commonplace things; everyb...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 10:7 I AM THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP. Jesus is the only way by which one can become part of the people of God (that is, Jesus’ flock). Compare Psalms 118:20.
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 10:1 contain a discourse on false and true leaders and teachers in reference to Christ, under the allegoric parable of the fold and the good shepherd. The enmity...
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...
Ephesians 2:18; Ezekiel 34:31; Hebrews 10:19; Isaiah 53:6; John 10:1
The door of the sheep. Meaning the door for the sheep; not the door of the fold. "The thought is connected with the life, and not simply with the organization....
THE DOOR OF THE SHEEPFOLD John 10:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Let us consider the all-inclusiveness, and the all-exclusive-ness of Christ, as introductory to our theme. First of all Christ said: "I am THE...
I am the door — Christ is both the Door and the Shepherd, and all things....
Observe here, 1. The character which Christ gives of himself, I AM THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP; that is, the only way and means by which sinners have access to God, and can obtain salvation: the only door b...