Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
John 10:6
This parable - See the notes at Matthew 13:3.
They understood not ... - They did not understand the meaning or design of the illustration.
This parable - See the notes at Matthew 13:3.
They understood not ... - They did not understand the meaning or design of the illustration.
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...
THIS PARABLE SPAKE JESUS UNTO THEM. The Greek word rendered here "parable," is not so rendered elsewhere. The above figure is not. parable in the same sense as the term is used elsewhere. There is no...
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP (John 10:1-6)...
Jesus said: "This is the truth I tell you; he who does not enter the sheepfold through the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber. But he who comes in through the door is the shep...
THIS PARABLE. See note on "and we", &c. (John 1:14). PARABLE. wayside saying. Greek _paroimia._ Not parable, which is _parabole. Paroimia_ Occurs in John here; and translated "proverb" in John 16:25;...
"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...
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...
_This parable_ Better, _This_ ALLEGORY. The word which the Synoptists use for -parable" (_parabolê_) is never used by S. John; and the word here used by S. John (_paroimia_) is never used by the Synop...
ΠΑΡΟΙΜΊΑΝ. ALLEGORY OR SIMILITUDE. The Synoptists never use παροιμία; S. John never uses παραβολή; and this should be preserved in translation. A.V. renders both words sometimes ‘parable’ and sometime...
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 6. THIS PARABLE SPOKE JESUS TO THEM: BUT THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT WHAT THINGS THEY WERE WHICH HE SPOKE TO THEM. AUG. Our Lord feeds by plain words, exercises by obscure. For when two persons, one godly...
_A LESSON ABOUT SHEEP -- JOHN 10:1-6:_ Jesus said that only thieves and robbers climb over the fence instead of going in through the door or gate to the sheep pen. He is actually talking about Himself...
ΠΑΡΟΙΜΊΑ (G3942) поговорка, притча (Barrett), ΈΓΝΩΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать, признавать. Обобщ. _aor._ описывает их непонимание смысла всего разговора, ΈΛΆΛΕΙ _impf. ind. act. от...
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...
This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. THIS PARABLE SPAKE JESUS UNTO THEM: BUT THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT WHAT THINGS THEY WERE WHICH H...
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...
THIS PARABLE SPAKE JESUS UNTO THEM. — Better, _this allegory spake Jesus unto them._ The word rendered “parable” is the wider word (παροιμία,_ paroimia_) which includes every kind of figurative and pr...
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...
The application of the parable was sufficiently obvious; but ταύτην … αὐτοῖς. παροιμία [παρά, οἶμος, out of the way or wayside] seems more properly to denote “a proverb”; and the Book of Proverbs is n...
to John 10:21. _The good and the hireling shepherds_....
“A STONE OF STUMBLING” John 9:35-41; John 10:1-6 In John 9:35 we hear of Jesus finding the outcast, whom the Pharisees had excommunicated; and this story is appropriately followed by a picture of the...
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...
This (b) parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. (b) This word "parable", which the evangelist uses here, signifies a hidden type of spe...
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...
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_...
VER. 6. “ _Jesus spoke this similitude to them; but they did not understand what that meant which he spoke to them._ ” The word, παροιμία, _similitude_, properly designates a by-path, hence an enigmat...
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...
6._This parable. _This is the reason why, proudly vaunting of their wisdom, they rejected the light of Christ; for in a matter not very obscure they are exceedingly dull of apprehension. _But they did...
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...
THIS PARABLE SPAKE JESUS UNTO THEM,.... To the Pharisees, who were with him, John 9:40; BUT THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT WHAT THINGS THEY WERE WHICH HE SPAKE UNTO THEM; the things spoken by him being delivere...
This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. Ver. 6. _But they understood not_] So thick brained and incapable we are, till that vail be...
_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...
UNDERSTOOD NOT; the meaning of what he had been saying. He therefore proceeded to explain it, and in so doing he changed the figure somewhat, representing himself as the door....
JESUS THE GOOD SHEPHERD. The parable of the sheepfold:...
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 b...
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 was wont to instruct them in the mysteries of the kingdom of God by parables, that is, similitudes taken from reasonable actions of men, which might be, and were, proper to express spiritu...
John 10:6 Jesus G2424 used G2036 (G5627) this G5026 illustration G3942 but G1161 they G1565 not G3756 understand...
‘This mysterious saying Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what things they were that he spoke to them.” The people did not have centuries of understanding behind them, and so they were...
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 10:6. THIS PARABLE SAID JESUS UNTO THEM: BUT THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT WHAT THINGS THEY WERE WHICH HE SPAKE UNTO THEM. The word here used is not that which occurs so frequently in the other gospels in...
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...
THIS PARABLE (ταυτην την παροιμιαν). Old word for proverb from παρα (beside) and οιμος, way, a wayside saying or saying by the way. As a proverb in N.T. in 2 Peter 2:22 (quotation from Proverbs 26:1...
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...
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...
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...
BUT THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND. Because the idea of _loving care_ was so _alien_ to them....
_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...
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...
_This parable spake Jesus unto them, but they knew not what things they were which he snake unto them._ In the Greek _παζοιμίον_, _a similitude, proverb._ (See note on Proverbs 1:5.) The Pharisees and...
_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 Corinthians 2:14; 1 John 5:20; Daniel 12:10; Isaiah 56:11; Isaia
Parable [π α ρ ο ι μ ι α ν]. The word occurs but once outside of John's writings (2 Peter 2:22). The usual word for parable is parabolh, which is once rendered proverb in the A. V. (Luke 4:23, changed...
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...
They — The Pharisees, to whom our Lord more immediately spake, as appears from the close of the foregoing chapter....