John 10:1-6
JESUS THE GOOD SHEPHERD. The parable of the sheepfold:... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS THE GOOD SHEPHERD. The parable of the sheepfold:... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE THAT ENTERETH IN BY THE DOOR IS THE SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO HIM THE PORTER OPENETH; AND THE SHEEP HEAR HIS VOICE; AND HE CALLETH HIS OWN SHEEP BY NAME, AND LEADETH THEM OUT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE PUTTETH FORTH HIS OWN SHEEP, HE GOETH BEFORE THEM, AND THE SHEEP FOLLOW HIM; FOR THEY KNOW HIS VOICE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND A STRANGER WILL THEY NOT FOLLOW, BUT WILL FLEE FROM HIM; FOR THEY KNOW NOT THE VOICE OF STRANGERS.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS PARABLE SPAKE JESUS UNTO THEM; BUT THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT WHAT THINGS THEY WERE WHICH HE SPAKE UNTO THEM. This parable was also spoken in the Temple, shortly after Jesus had found the man that had been blind and had uttered the ominous words to the Pharisees concerning spiritual blindness. He here... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID JESUS UNTO THEM AGAIN, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, I AM THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP.... [ Continue Reading ]
Jesus the Door to the sheepfold:... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THAT EVER CAME BEFORE ME ARE THIEVES AND ROBBERS; BUT THE SHEEP DID NOT HEAR THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
I AM THE DOOR; BY ME IF ANY MAN ENTER IN, HE SHALL BE SAVED, AND SHALL GO IN AND OUT, AND FIND PASTURE.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE THIEF COMETH NOT BUT FOR TO STEAL, AND TO KILL, AND TO DESTROY; I AM COME THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE LIFE, AND THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLY. Jesus makes an application of His parable for the sake of His hearers. In the sheepfold of His Church He is the Door. Only through Him, by reference t... [ Continue Reading ]
Jesus the Good Shepherd:... [ Continue Reading ]
I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD; THE GOOD SHEPHERD GIVETH HIS LIFE FOR THE SHEEP.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE THAT IS AN HIRELING, AND NOT THE SHEPHERD, WHOSE OWN THE SHEEP ARE NOT, SEETH THE WOLF COMING, AND LEAVETH THE SHEEP, AND FLEETH; AND THE WOLF CATCHETH THEM, AND SCATTERETH THE SHEEP.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HIRELING FLEETH, BECAUSE HE IS AN HIRELING, AND CARETH NOT FOR THE SHEEP.... [ Continue Reading ]
I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD, AND KNOW MY SHEEP, AND AM KNOWN OF MINE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THE FATHER 'KNOWETH ME, EVEN SO KNOW I THE FATHER; AND I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR THE SHEEP.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND OTHER SHEEP I HAVE WHICH ARE NOT OF THIS FOLD; THEM ALSO I MUST BRING, AND THEY SHALL HEAR MY VOICE; AND THERE SHALL BE ONE FOLD AND ONE SHEPHERD. Jesus here applies the parable in still another way, from another view-point. He calls Himself the Good shepherd, with emphasis, as the only one that... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE DOTH MY FATHER LOVE ME, BECAUSE I LAY DOWN MY LIFE, THAT I MIGHT TAKE IT AGAIN.... [ Continue Reading ]
The end of the discourse and its effect:... [ Continue Reading ]
NO MAN TAKETH IT FROM ME, BUT I LAY IT DOWN OF MYSELF. I HAVE POWER TO LAY IT DOWN, AND I HAVE POWER TO TAKE IT AGAIN. THIS COMMANDMENT HAVE I RECEIVED OF MY FATHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE WAS A DIVISION THEREFORE AGAIN AMONG THE JEWS FOR THESE SAYINGS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MANY OF THEM SAID, HE HATH A DEVIL, I AND IS MAD; WHY HEAR YE HIM?... [ Continue Reading ]
OTHERS SAID, THESE ARE NOT THE WORDS OF HIM THAT HATH A DEVIL. CAN A DEVIL OPEN THE EYES OF THE BLIND? The chief proof and manifestation of the love of the Good Shepherd consists in this, that He lays down His life, His soul, as a ransom. The self-sacrifice of Jesus was altogether free and in no way... [ Continue Reading ]
CHRIST'S SERMON AT THE FEAST OF DEDICATION. The testimony of Jesus concerning Himself:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT WAS AT JERUSALEM, THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION, AND IT WAS WINTER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS WALKED IN THE TEMPLE IN SOLOMON'S PORCH.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN CAME THE JEWS ROUND ABOUT HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, HOW LONG DOST THOU MAKE US TO DOUBT? IF THOU BE THE CHRIST, TELL US PLAINLY.... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS ANSWERED THEM, I TOLD YOU, AND YE BELIEVED NOT; THE WORKS THAT I DO IN MY FATHER'S NAME, THEY BEAR WITNESS OF ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT YE BELIEVE NOT, BECAUSE YE ARE NOT OF MY SHEEP, AS I SAID UNTO YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, AND I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW ME;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I GIVE UNTO THEM ETERNAL LIFE; AND THEY SHALL NEVER PERISH, NEITHER SHALL ANY MAN PLUCK THEM OUT OF MY HAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY FATHER, WHICH GAVE THEM ME, IS GREATER THAN ALL; AND NO MAN IS ABLE TO PLUCK THEM OUT OF MY FATHER'S HAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE. There is an interval of about two months between this story and the one just preceding it. The Festival of the Dedication had been celebrated since the time of the Maccabees in commemoration of the reconsecration of the Temple after its defilement by Antiochus Epiphanes. It... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THE JEWS TOOK UP STONES AGAIN TO STONE HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Jews accuse Jesus of blasphemy:... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS ANSWERED THEM, MANY GOOD WORKS HAVE I SHOWED YOU FROM MY FATHER; FOR WHICH OF THOSE WORKS DO YE STONE ME?... [ Continue Reading ]
THE JEWS ANSWERED HIM, SAYING, FOR A GOOD WORK WE STONE THEE NOT, BUT FOR BLASPHEMY, AND BECAUSE THAT THOU, BEING A MAN, MAKEST THYSELF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS ANSWERED THEM, IS IT NOT WRITTEN IN YOUR LAW, I SAID, YE ARE GODS?... [ Continue Reading ]
IF HE CALLED THEM GODS UNTO WHOM THE WORD OF GOD CAME, AND THE SCRIPTURE CANNOT BE BROKEN,... [ Continue Reading ]
SAY YE OF HIM WHOM THE FATHER HATH SANCTIFIED AND SENT INTO THE WORLD, THOU BLASPHEMEST; BECAUSE I SAID, I AM THE SON OF GOD?... [ Continue Reading ]
IF I DO NOT THE WORKS OF MY FATHER, BELIEVE ME NOT.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF I DO, THOUGH YE BELIEVE NOT ME, BELIEVE THE WORKS; THAT YE MAY KNOW AND BELIEVE THAT THE FATHER IS IN ME, AND I IN HIM. With growing indignation and resentment the Jews had listened to the statements which Jesus made concerning Himself until He reached the climax in the declaration of the ess... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE THEY SOUGHT AGAIN TO TAKE HIM; BUT HE ESCAPED OUT OF THEIR HAND,... [ Continue Reading ]
Jesus leaves Jerusalem:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WENT AWAY AGAIN BEYOND JORDAN INTO THE PLACE WHERE JOHN AT FIRST BAPTIZED; AND THERE HE ABODE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MANY RESORTED UNTO HIM AND SAID, JOHN DID NO MIRACLE; BUT ALL THINGS THAT JOHN SPAKE OF THIS MAN WERE TRUE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MANY BELIEVED ON HIM THERE. The argument of Jesus at least made so much impression that the Jews dropped the stones, but they still had the intention of arresting Him; but Jesus, in the power of His divinity, went out of their hands, which sank back powerless. He had again proclaimed the Gospel... [ Continue Reading ]