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John 10:9
I am the Door; by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
I am the Door; by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
Verse John 10:9. _I AM THE DOOR: BY ME IF ANY MAN ENTER_, c.] Those who come for salvation to God, through Christ, _shall_ obtain it: _he_ _shall be saved_-he shall have his sins blotted out, his soul...
BY ME - By my instruction and merits. SHALL BE SAVED - See John 5:24. SHALL GO IN AND OUT ... - This is language applied, commonly to flocks. It meant that he shall be well supplied, and defended, a...
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...
BY ME, IF ANY MAN ENTER IN, HE SHALL BE SAVED. Christ is at once the door, the shepherd and the pasture. His pasture is the bread of life and the water of life. They who enter by him, in the way he h...
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)...
I AM. I represent. See note on John 6:35. IF, &c.. contingency which would be proved by the result. App-118. Not the same word as in Joh 24:33, Joh 24:37, Joh 24:38. ANY MAN. any one. App-123. AND...
_by me_ Placed first for emphasis; -through Me and in no other way." The main point is iterated again and again, each time with great simplicity, and yet most emphatically. "The simplicity, the direct...
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...
"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...
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...
THE ALLEGORY OF THE DOOR OF THE FOLD...
There is a very clear reference to this verse in the Ignatian Epistles, _Philad_. 9: αὐτὸς ὢν θύρα τοῦ πατρός, δι' ἧς εἰσέρχονται Ἀβραὸμ κ. Ἰσαὰκ κ. Ἰακὼβ κ. οἱ προφῆται κ. οἱ�. ἡ ἐκκλησία. In the mes...
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...
_JESUS IS THE GOOD SHEPHERD -- JOHN 10:8-21:_ Jesus claimed to be both the door of the sheep and He claimed to be the Good Shepherd. It is through Jesus alone that man can be saved. Jesus refereed to...
ΕΊΣΈΛΘΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΕΙΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1525) входить внутрь. _Conj._ с ΈΆΝ (G1437) в _conj._ 3 типа, в котором условие рассматривается как возможное: "некоторые могут войти" ΣΩΘΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. p...
DISCOURSE: 1662 THE GOOD SHEPHERD John 10:9. _I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture_. THE importance of sound doctrine cannot be too s...
BY ME IF ANY MAN ENTER IN,— "If any man believeth on me, he shall become a true member of God's church on earth, and, if faithful, shall from time to time receive such instructions as shall nourish hi...
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...
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....
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...
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. I AM THE DOOR: BY ME IF ANY MAN ENTER IN - whether shepherd or sheep, HE SHALL BE SAVED -...
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...
I AM THE DOOR] 'Through faith in Me both shepherds and sheep enter into the Kingdom of God, and find all their spiritual needs supplied.' PASTURE] i.e. the means of grace....
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...
BY ME IF ANY MAN ENTER IN. — He returns to the thought of the door, through which every true shepherd must himself enter the fold. The thought is parallel to that of the “strait gate” and “narrow way,...
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...
ἐγώ … εὑρήσει. With emphasis He reiterates: “I am the door: through me, and none else, if a man enter he shall be saved, and shall go in and out find pasture”. Meyer and others supply “any shepherd” a...
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...
(3) I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall (d) go in and out, and find pasture. (3) Only Christ is the true Pastor, and those only are the true Church who acknowledge...
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...
_CHRIST THE DOOR_ ‘I am the Door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.’ John 10:9 It is an open question whether the text refers to priests only,...
9._If any man enter by me. _The highest consolation of believers is, that when they have once embraced Christ, they learn that they are out of danger; for Christ promises to them salvation and happine...
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...
I AM THE DOOR,.... Of the sheep, as before, see John 10:7. The Ethiopic version reads, "I am the true door of the sheep"; which is repeated for further confirmation, and for the sake of introducing wh...
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 dain...
_I am the door_ I therefore repeat it again, as a most important truth, that I myself am the only right door of entrance into the church of God; _if any one_, as a sheep, _enter in_ By me, through fai...
FIND PASTURE; receive spiritual food, satisfying good....
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 here lets us know, that he meant by THE DOOR, in the former verse, the door of salvation; the way by which every man must enter into life that findeth life; not the door only by which ever...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians the Sacrifice, the Door[82] Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen with wool and purple; but wreathing thy brows with righteousness, and encircli...
John 10:9 I G1473 am G1510 (G5748) door G2374 If G1437 anyone G5100 enters G1525 (G5632) by...
“I am the doorway. By me if any man enter in he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.” ‘I am the doorway of the sheep' (compare John 10:7). Jesus is both the good shepherd and the doo...
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 10:9. I AM THE DOOR: BY ME IF ANY ONE HAVE ENTERED IN, HE SHALL BE SAVED, AND SHALL ENTER IN, AND SHALL GO OUT AND FIND PASTURE. From the thought of the ‘thieves and robbers,' Jesus turns to mat...
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...
THE DOOR (η θυρα). Repeated from verse John 10:7.BY ME IF ANY MAN ENTER IN (δι' εμου εαν τις εισελθη). Condition of third class with εαν and second aorist active subjunctive of εισερχομα. Note pro...
SAVED (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
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...
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...
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...
WHOEVER COMES IN BY ME WILL BE SAVED. The "door" allows the sheep to enter, and therefore is symbolic of _coming in_ to protection and shelter; and _going out_ to freedom and life. [Christ is _at the...
_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...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 10:9 DOOR. The NT elsewhere speaks of “entering” God’s kingdom as through a door (e.g., Matthew 7:7,...
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 34:12; Hebrews 10:19; Isaiah 40:11;...
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...
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...