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John 10:8
All others who came before me. The false messiahs of the past. They could not fulfill the prophecies about the Messiah. Rather than coming in through the door, they climbed over the wall!
All others who came before me. The false messiahs of the past. They could not fulfill the prophecies about the Messiah. Rather than coming in through the door, they climbed over the wall!
JOHN 10:8 h=lqon @pro. evmou/# {C} It is difficult to decide whether copyists added pro. evmou/, before or after h=lqon, in order to make more sense from a highly compressed statement, or whether the...
Verse John 10:8. _ALL THAT EVER CAME BEFORE ME_] Or, as some translate, _all that came instead of me_, προ εμου, i.e. all that came as _the_ _Christ_, or Messiah, such as _Theudas_, and _Judas_ the _...
ALL THAT EVER CAME BEFORE ME - This does not refer to the prophets, but to those who came pretending to be the pastors or guides of the people. Some have supposed that he referred to those who pretend...
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...
ALL THAT EVER CAME BEFORE ME ARE THIEVES AND ROBBERS. This passage has caused much difference of opinion. Alford holds that Satan came before Christ in Eden to sway our race, and that the language ref...
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)...
ALL THAT EVER. All whoever. BEFORE. Greek _pro._ App-104. The true Shepherd could not come till God's purpose was ripe in the fullness of the times (Galatians 1:4; Galatians 1:4). Moses and the prophe...
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...
_All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers_ These words are difficult, and some copyists seem to have tried to avoid the difficulty by omitting either -all" or -before Me." But the balance...
ΠΆΝΤΕΣ ὍΣΟΙ ἯΛΘΟΝ ΠΡῸ ἘΜΟΥ͂. These words are difficult, and some copyists seem to have tried to avoid the difficulty by omitting either πάντες or πρὸ ἐμοῦ. But the balance of authority leaves no doubt...
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...
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...
ΉΛΘΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить, ΉΚΟΥΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать. Здесь в _знач._ "повиноваться". По поводу падежа _obj. см._ BD, 95....
ALL THAT EVER CAME BEFORE ME— "All those who in former times assumed the characters of teachers of religion, without commission from me, _are thieves and robbers."_ Here, as in many other instances, o...
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....
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 10:1-10. 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...
All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. ALL THAT EVER CAME BEFORE ME - the false prophets; not as claiming the prerogatives of Messiah, But as pervert...
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...
'All who have taught Israel from the cessation of prophecy to My own coming have been false and unauthorised teachers.' Our Lord is alluding, of course, not to the OT. prophets, but to the scribes who...
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...
ALL THAT EVER CAME BEFORE ME ARE THIEVES AND ROBBERS. — Comp. Note on John 10:1. The Sinaitic MS. and several of the early versions read this verse without the words translated “before Me,” but the ba...
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...
In contrast to Jesus, πάντες … λῃσταί, “all who came before me,” _i.e._, all who came before me, claiming to be what I am and to give to the sheep what I give. The prophets pointed forward to Him and...
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...
(2) All that (c) ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. (2) It does not matter how many false teachers there have been, neither how old they have been. (c) The...
_All they who come are thieves, meaning those who came of their own accord, without being sent: not so the prophets, who had their mission from God. (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 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_...
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...
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...
8._All who came before me. _The words πάντες ὅσοι may be literally rendered, all as many as _came before me _They who restrict this expression to Judas the Galilean, and such persons, depart widely, i...
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...
ALL THAT EVER CAME BEFORE ME ARE THIEVES AND ROBBERS,.... This must be understood with some restrictions, not of every individual person, nor of every individual prophet or shepherd; not of Moses, nor...
All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. Ver. 8. _All that ever came before me, &c._] Manes (that mad heretic) made an argument from this text against Mo...
_This parable spake Jesus: but they understood not_, &c. In this symbolical way Jesus taught the Pharisees the difference between true and false teachers; but they did not understand the meaning of wh...
CAME BEFORE ME; without entering the door. See note to verse John 10:1. THE SHEEP DID NOT HEAR THEM; the truly pious did not receive their false doctrines, or imitate their corrupt examples....
Jesus the Door to the sheepfold:...
ALL THAT EVER CAME BEFORE ME ARE THIEVES AND ROBBERS; BUT THE SHEEP DID NOT HEAR THEM....
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...
This must not be understood of the prophets, but of such only as came before Christ, not being sent by him: all those that taught people another way of life and salvation, than by believing in the Mes...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I Chapter XVII.-On the Saying of the Saviour, "All that Came Before Me Were Thieves and Robbers."[189] Origen Against Celsus Book VII To explain this fully, and t...
John 10:8 All G3956 ever G3745 came G2064 (G5627) before G4253 Me G1700 are G1526 (G5748) thieves...
“All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.” There have been false Messiahs and false teachers, under whatever guise, but they would not gain wide acceptance by...
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 10:8. ALL THAT CAME BEFORE ME ARE THIEVES AND ROBBERS: BUT THE SHEEP DID NOT HEAR THEM. In the similitude of the door, Jesus had declared that it was through Him alone that the flocks could come...
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...
BEFORE ME (προ εμου). Aleph with the Latin, Syriac, and Sahidic versions omit these words (supported by A B D L W). But with or without προ εμου Jesus refers to the false Messiahs and self-appointed...
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...
_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 10:8 ALL WHO CAME BEFORE ME may refer to messianic pretenders (e.g., Acts 5:36; Acts 21:38
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...
Acts 5:36; Ezekiel 22:25; Ezekiel 34:2; Isaiah 56:10; John 10:1;...
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...
Whosoever are come — Independently of me, assuming any part of my character, pretending, like your elders and rabbis, to a power over the consciences of men, attempting to make laws in the Church, and...