9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. Ver. 9. And shall go in and out, &c. ] That is, shall live securely, and be fed daily and daintily, as David shows, Psalms 23:1-6 , where he sweetly strikes upon the whole string through the whole hymn. read more
the door: John 10:1, John 10:7, John 14:6, Romans 5:1, Romans 5:2, Ephesians 2:18, Hebrews 10:19-Song of Solomon : and shall: Psalms 23:1-Joshua :, Psalms 80:1-Leviticus :, Psalms 95:7, Psalms 100:3, Psalms 100:4, Isaiah 40:11, Isaiah 49:9, Isaiah 49:10, Ezekiel 34:12-Nehemiah :, Zechariah 10:12 Reciprocal: Exodus 26:36 - hanging Exodus 40:28 - General Exodus 40:33 - hanging Leviticus 1:3 - at the Leviticus 17:4 - bringeth Numbers 9:17 - when the cloud Numbers 27:17 - go out 1 Kings 3:7 -... read more
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.If any one — As a sheep, enter in by me - Through faith, he shall be safe - From the wolf, and from those murdering shepherds.And shall go in and out — Shall continually attend on the shepherds whom I have sent; and shall find pasture - Food for his soul in all circumstances. read more
§ 84. RESTORATION OF THE BLIND-BORN AND FOURTH DISCOURSE AT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES, John 9:1 John 10:21 . The event here narrated, with its appended discourse, must, in order to be understood in its completeness, be taken into one reading from John 9:1 to John 10:39. It takes place at the Feast of Tabernacles. Through chapter ix the spiritual lords of Jerusalem show themselves false shepherds, as the blind-born is a true representative sheep; and through John 10:1-21 Jesus contrasts the ... read more
9. The door The way of access to the fold of the justified; and so the way, access, or mediator between man and God. The Pharisees rejected this way; and yet, undertaking to play the shepherd by a false route, became interlopers, usurpers, persecutors, and destroyers. If any man… saved For even the under shepherds are, under another view, sheep of the great Shepherd, and need to enter in and be saved. Pasture See note on John 10:3. read more
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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