Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 10:15
As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father — With such a knowledge as implies an inexpressible union: and I lay down my life — Speaking of the present time. For his whole life was only a going unto death.
As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father — With such a knowledge as implies an inexpressible union: and I lay down my life — Speaking of the present time. For his whole life was only a going unto death.
JOHN 10:15 ti,qhmi {B} See the comment on ver. 11....
AS THE FATHER KNOWETH ME ... - See the Matthew 11:27 note; also Luke 10:22 note. I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR THE SHEEP - That is, I give my life as an atoning sacrifice for their sins. I die in their place...
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...
AS THE FATHER KNOWETH ME. As the Father knew the Son and the Son the Father, so is there. tender bond between the sheep of Christ and the Good Shepherd. For them he was then giving and would give his...
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP (John 10:1-6)...
"I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. The hireling, who is not a real shepherd, and to whom the sheep do not really belong, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the shee...
AS. According as. the Father. See note on John 1:14. EVEN SO KNOW I. I also know. LAY DOWN. Same as "give", John 10:11....
_As the Father knoweth me, even so_, &c. This rendering entirely obscures the true meaning. There should be no full stop at the end of John 10:14, and the sentence should run; I KNOW MINE, AND MINE KN...
Further description of the True Shepherd. (1) His intimate knowledge of His sheep; (2) His readiness to die for them. This latter point recurs repeatedly as a sort of refrain, like -I will raise him u...
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...
14–18. Further description of the True Shepherd. (1) His intimate knowledge of His sheep; (2) His readiness to die for them. This latter point recurs repeatedly as a sort of refrain, like ‘I will rais...
THE ALLEGORY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD...
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...
Ver 14. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. 15. As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16. And other sheep I have, which...
_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...
I—KNOW MY SHEEP, AND AM KNOWN, &C.— _Know_ here, as in many other passages of scripture, implies much more than a mere speculative knowledge;—a knowledge of love and approbation. The force of the pass...
THE GOOD SHEPHERD _Text 10:11-21_ 11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep. 12 He that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, behol...
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 10:11-21 The following is submitted as an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— The Pharisees were the shepherds of Israel. In casting out of the s...
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. AS THE FATHER KNOWETH ME, EVEN SO KNOW I THE FATHER. This ought not to have begun a new sentence; because...
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...
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...
AS THE FATHER KNOWETH ME, EVEN SO KNOW I THE FATHER. — Better,... _and I know the Father._ Our version, by its rendering, and by the division of verses, fails to give the full meaning, and there is th...
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...
This reciprocal knowledge is so sure and profound that it can only be compared to the mutual knowledge of the Father and the Son: καθὼς … πατέρα. He then applies to Himself what had been stated in gen...
In these verses Jesus designates Himself “the Good Shepherd” and emphasises two features by which a good shepherd can be known: (1) his giving his life for the sheep, and (2) the reciprocal knowledge...
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...
As the Father (e) knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. (e) Loves me, allows me....
_I lay down. That is, in a short time shall lay down my life for my sheep: for all, and in a special manner for my elect. See ver. 28. (Witham)_...
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...
“ _As for me, I am the good shepherd; and I know my sheep, and I am known by my sheep;_ 15 _as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I give my life for the sheep._ 16. _And I have other sheep...
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...
_FOURFOLD KNOWLEDGE_ ‘I am the Good Shepherd, and know My sheep, and am known of Mine. As the Father knoweth Me, even so know I the Father.’ John 10:14 The important word in this sentence is the wo...
15._As the Father knoweth me. _It is unnecessary, and is not even expedient, that we should enter into those thorny questions, How is it that the Father knows his Wisdom? For Christ simply declares th...
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...
AS THE FATHER KNOWETH ME,.... These words, with what follow, are in connection with John 10:14; and the sense is, that the mutual knowledge of Christ, and his sheep, is like that which his Father and...
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. Ver. 15. _I lay down my life_] Yet as man he was ζωον φιλοζωον. (Aesop, Fab.) _Quis vitam non vult?_ Who doe...
_I am the good shepherd_ Jesus, having represented himself as the _door of the sheep_, and intimated the regards which ought to be maintained to him as such, particularly by those that professed to be...
Jesus the Good Shepherd:...
AS THE FATHER 'KNOWETH ME, EVEN SO KNOW I THE FATHER; AND I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR THE SHEEP....
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...
10-18 Christ is a good Shepherd; many who were not thieves, yet were careless in their duty, and by their neglect the flock was much hurt. Bad principles are the root of bad practices. The Lord Jesus...
By these words our Saviour openeth how he knew his sheep, and should be again known of them, even as the Father knoweth him, and he knows his Father: this mutual knowledge between the Father and Chris...
Tertullian Against Praxeas In a later passage He declares that He is known by the Father, and the Father by Him;[295] Alexander Epistles on the Arian Heresy Now concerning their blasphemous asserti...
John 10:15 As G2531 Father G3962 knows G1097 (G5719) Me G3165 so G2504 know G1097 (G5719)...
“I am the good shepherd, and I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep'. The relationship between Jesus and His own is l...
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 10:14-15. I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD, AND I KNOW MINE OWN, AND MINE OWN KNOW ME, EVEN AS THE FATHER KNOWETH ME AND I KNOW THE FATHER. AND I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR THE SHEEP. As the figure of John 10:7...
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...
AND I KNOW THE FATHER (καγω γινωσκω τον πατερα). Hence he is qualified to reveal the Father (John 1:18). The comparison of the mutually reciprocal knowledge between the Father and the Son illustrate...
John 10:14 The Shepherd of the Sheep Two things come up for consideration in this verse (1) The good Shepherd in His relation as such; (2) His work. I. The Shepherd stands in a twofold relation; on...
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...
THERE ARE OTHER SHEEP. The Gentiles. People "sort themselves out" by responding to Christ's _call_ which comes through the Gospel. See note on John 6:37....
_I am the Good Shepherd_ CHRIST THE GOOD SHEPHERD Christ is “the Good Shepherd. ” He is this because I. He OWNS the sheep. He is the Proprietor of the flock. They are His 1. By the gift of the Fa...
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...
_As the Father knoweth Me_, &c. By this comparison Christ points out both the origin and also the greatness of the love which He bestows on His sheep. The boundless knowledge and love which exists bet...
_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...
1 John 2:2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18; 1 Timothy 2:5; 1 Timothy 2:6;...
As the Father knoweth me. Connect these words with the previous sentence : mine own know me, even as the Father knoweth me, etc....
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...