John 10:10

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 10:1-18

The Good Shepherd and the False Shepherds (John 10:1-18 ). 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 studied warning against looking to false teachers and false leaders, although having said that it at the same time contrasts and highlights the true Shepherd. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 10:10

‘The thief does not come for any other reason but that he may steal and kill and destroy. I came that they might have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” The thief is now contrasted with the shepherd. The thief is pictured in terms of a thieving rustler or wild beast who breaks into the fold to ravage the sheep. The thief ‘comes only to steal, kill and destroy’ (compareJeremiah 23:1-2; Jeremiah 23:1-2). The men who are pictured in this description would not have thought of... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - John 10:1-21

John 10. The Close of the Ministry in Jerusalem. [85] John 10:1-Ecclesiastes : . The Good Shepherd.— The first part of this chapter records Jesus’ teaching on true and false leadership. In John 10:1-Deuteronomy : we have a close resemblance to the Synoptic parable, with one dominant idea. The true leader, wielding the authority of one sent by God, calls out the willing obedience of the led. It arises directly out of the circumstances of the case. As usual the words, “ Verily, verily”... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 10:10

Look as it is with the true shepherd, that owneth the sheep, and whose the flock is; he cometh regularly into the care and conduct of it; he cometh into the sheepfold, to take care of the life and welfare of his sheep: but a thief and a robber, that climbeth into the window, and so gets into the sheepfold, he comes not there out of any good will to the sheep, but merely, by destroying the sheep to provide for himself. So it is with them that, without any call or derivation of authority from me,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - John 10:1-21

EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTESJohn 10:1-21 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 of the Pharisees displayed toward Jesus after the miracle of healing the man born blind led to the assertion of John 9:39. “Are we blind also?” wonderingly asked some of the Pharisees. “You boast that you are not,” is the reply. “You have the light of the divine word, etc., but are wilfully blind... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 10:10

John 10:10 I. The gift of the Spirit of life dwells in those who are united to Christ in a fulness more abundant than was ever revealed before. And the gift of life is not a power, a principle, but a very true Person dwelling in us. This is the regeneration for which all ages waited till the Word was made flesh the new birth of water and of the Spirit, of which the baptism of Christ is the ordained sacrament. Here, then, we see a part of this great promise. In one word, it is the fulness of... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - John 10:10

DISCOURSE: 1663LIFE ABUNDANTLY BY CHRISTJohn 10:10. I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.THE parables of our blessed Lord, though exceedingly clear and striking, lose much of their force by reason of the difference of our habits from those which obtained amongst the Jews. For instance, the office of a shepherd, though simple in itself, was widely different in Canaan from that which men are called to discharge in our land. In Canaan, where there were... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - John 10:1-42

Chapter 10So 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 Christ. And so Jesus said,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 ( John 10:1 ).Now later on He said, "I am the door." If a man tries to come by any other system, by any other way,... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - John 10:1-42

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 Abraham, but were of the serpent’s race. He now denounces them as impostors in the sanctuary, and not “moved by the Holy Ghost to take upon them that office and ministry.” They had assumed the sacred dignities for bread, for honour, for the splendour of robes to command the respect of the people. They... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - John 10:1-13

John 10:1-13He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfoldShepherdhoodThe simple lesson which our Lord intended to teach in this familiar passage has often been strangely mistaken.The minds of men have been so fixed upon certain ecclesiastical conclusions which have been commonly derived from it, that the simpler but far profounder teaching which the Master had in mind to give has been overlooked. He was not defending the formal authority of His own or of any office. He was not discussing... read more

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