Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
John 10:29
Verse 29. My Father - is greater than all] More powerful than all the united energies of men and demons. He who loves God must be happy; and he who fears him need fear nothing on this side eternity.
Verse 29. My Father - is greater than all] More powerful than all the united energies of men and demons. He who loves God must be happy; and he who fears him need fear nothing on this side eternity.
JOHN 10:29 o] de,dwke,n moi pa,ntwn mei/zo,n evstin {D} In sorting out this nest of variant readings that present all possible combinations of the masculine or neuter relative pronoun and the masculi...
WHICH GAVE THEM ME - See John 6:37. IS GREATER - Is more powerful. THAN ALL - Than all others - men, angels, devils. The word includes everything - everything that could attempt to pluck them away fr...
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...
THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION._ Mg.,_ At that time suggests a closer connexion with what precedes than the old reading And. But in any case the notes of time are not precise. The Feast of the Dedication...
NO MAN, ETC. It has been held that these verses teach the doctrine of the "final perseverance of the saints," or "once in grace always in grace." They rather teach that Christ watches over his sheep a...
My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; and no one can snatch them from the hand of the Father. I and the Father are one. This passage show's at one and the same time the tremendous trus...
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP (John 10:1-6)...
_which gave them_ Better, _which_ HATH GIVEN _them_. Comp. John 17:6; John 17:24. This enforces the previous assertion. -To snatch them out of My hand, he must snatch them out of My Father's hand; and...
The Discourse at the Feast of the Dedication Again we seem to have a gap in the narrative. Between John 10:21 (but see below) there is an interval of about two months; for the Feast of Tabernacles wo...
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...
Ὅ (אB1L) for ὅς (AB2), and ΠΆΝΤΩΝ ΜΙΕ͂ΖΟΝ for μείζων πάντων. 29. ΔΈΔΩΚΕΝ. see on John 3:35 and comp. John 17:6; John 17:24. THAT WHICH THE FATHER HATH GIVEN ME _is greater than all_. The unity of the...
THE DISCOURSE AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION Again we seem to have a gap in the narrative. Between John 10:21-22 (but see below) there is an interval of about two months; for the Feast of Tabernacles...
Ver 22. And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. 23. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. 24. Then came the Jews round about him, and said to him, How long...
_JESUS WAS REJECTED BY THE JEWS -- JOHN 10:22-38:_ That winter, Jesus was in Jerusalem for the feast of the dedication. In Solomon's Porch the people gathered all around Him. They asked Jesus to tell...
ΔΈΔΩΚΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать. _Perf._ указывает на состояние как результат прошлого действия, ΠΆΝΤΩΝ _gen. от_ ΠΆΣ все; _gen._ сравнения, ΜΕΊΖΟΝ (G3187) _сотр. от_ ΜΈΓΑΣ обширн...
CLAIMS TO DEITY _Text 10:22-31_ 22 And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: 23 it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch. 24 The Jews therefore came roun...
My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. MY FATHER, WHICH GAVE [RATHER, 'HATH GIVEN' dedooken (G1325 )] THEM ME (SEE THE NOTES A...
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...
JESUS AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION. As there is no statement that Jesus went up to Jerusalem, it is fair to infer that Jesus spent the two months between the Feast of Tabernacles and that of the Ded...
The Father is superior to all hostile powers, and therefore believers can never be lost through the power of the enemy. There is another reading, 'That which the Father hath given unto me is greater t...
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...
MY FATHER, WHICH GAVE THEM ME (better, _hath given them Me_)_,_ IS GREATER THAN ALL. — For the thought that they are given by the Father, comp. Note on John 6:37. Here our version has rightly made no...
CHAPTER 22 JESUS, SON OF GOD. “And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch. The Jews therefore came round about Him, and...
_Sayings of Jesus at the Feast of Dedication_....
These strong assertions He bases, as always, on the Father's will and power. ὁ πατήρ μου … ἐσμεν. “My Father who has given me these sheep is greater than all: and therefore no one can snatch them out...
OUR ASSURANCE OF SAFE-KEEPING John 10:19-30 Our Lord did not shrink from the avowal of His divine origin and glory, when there was need or when they were challenged. See John 4:26; Matthew 26:64. For...
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...
That which my Father hath given [1] me, is greater than all. We may look upon this as the true reading by Tertullian, St. Hillary, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, &c. The ancient Fathers make use of these...
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...
“ _My Father who has given them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand;_ 30 _I and the Father are one._ ” We might be tempted to find, with _Luthardt_, a...
THIRD SECTION: 10:22-42. THE SECOND DISCOURSE. In chap. John 7:19-24, we have seen Jesus return, in a discourse pronounced at the feast of Tabernacles, to the fact of the healing of the impotent man ...
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...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 22-32. 1. The argument presented by Godet, as against Meyer, Weiss and others, seems satisfactory as showing that Jesus probably left Jerusalem and its ne...
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: (28) And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. (29) My Father which...
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...
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...
MY FATHER WHICH GAVE [THEM] ME,.... So the sheep came to be Christ's, and to be in his hand; the Father gave them to him, put them into his hands, and made them his care and charge: IS GREATER THAN A...
My Father, which gave _them_ me, is greater than all; and no _man_ is able to pluck _them_ out of my Father's hand. Ver. 29. _No man is able to pluck them_] Impostors seek to thrust us from God, Deut...
_My sheep hear my voice_, &c. Our Lord still alludes to the discourse he had had before this festival. As if he had said, My sheep are those who, 1st, _Hear my voice_ by faith; 2d, Are _known_ (that i...
IS GREATER THAN ALL; see note to chap John 14:28....
CHRIST'S SERMON AT THE FEAST OF DEDICATION. The testimony of Jesus concerning Himself:...
MY FATHER, WHICH GAVE THEM ME, IS GREATER THAN ALL; AND NO MAN IS ABLE TO PLUCK THEM OUT OF MY FATHER'S HAND....
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...
22-30 All who have any thing to say to Christ, may find him in the temple. Christ would make us to believe; we make ourselves doubt. The Jews understood his meaning, but could not form his words into...
All that are my sheep became so by my Father's donation and gift, so as my Father is equally with myself concerned in the preservation of them to that happy end, to which he hath ordained and designed...
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VIII which Thou hast redeemed with the precious blood of Thy Christ; be Thou their protector, aider, provider, and guardian, their strong wall of defence, thei...
John 10:29 My G3450 Father G3962 who G3739 given G1325 (G5758) Me G3427 is G2076 (G5748) than...
“My Father who has given them to me is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father's hand'. This security is made all the more certain because the One Who is Almighty, His Father, Who...
THE FEAST OF DEDICATION (JOHN 10:22)....
John 10:29-30. MY FATHER, WHICH HATH GIVEN THEM ME, IS GREATER THAN ALL; AND NO ONE is ABLE TO PLUCK OUT OF THE FATHER'S HAND. I AND THE FATHER ARE ONE. The apparent object of these words is to establ...
The contest with the Jews is continued. The section strikingly illustrates the plan of the gospel (1) by taking up again that claim of Jesus to be the Son of God which had, more than anything else, pr...
WHICH (ος). Who. If ο (which) is correct, we have to take ο πατηρ as nominative absolute or independent, "As for my Father."IS GREATER THAN ALL (παντων μειζων εστιν). If we read ος. But Aleph B L...
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...
AND NO ONE CAN SNATCH THEM AWAY. That is, those sheep who hear his voice and follow him. So long as they remain under his grace, they are safe, (see Romans 8:33-39; Hebrews 6:4-6; 2 Peter 1:10)....
_Then came the Jews round about Him_ THE SCENE AND CIRCUMSTANCES Here in this bright colonnade, decked for the feast with glittering trophies, Jesus was walking up and down, quietly, and apparently w...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 10:26 The reason people do not believe is BECAUSE they ARE NOT AMONG Jesus’ SHEEP. God must first give them the ability to believe; then he makes them a part of his
_My Father which gave them Me is greater than all_ (the Vulgate and Latin fathers read " _majus_," the Greek fathers _μείξων_), _and no one is able to pluck them out of My Father's hand_. Because the...
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 10:22. _Our Lord’s utterances at the feast of dedication on His oneness with the Father, etc._—This feast (τὰ ἐγκαίνια—the Encænia) was post-exilic in its origin....
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...
Daniel 4:3; Exodus 18:11; John 14:28; John 17:11; John 17:2;...
My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all [ο π α τ η ρ μ ο υ ο ς δ ε δ ω κ ε μ ο ι, μ ε ι ζ ω ν π α ν τ ω ν ε σ τ ι ν]. There is considerable confusion here about the reading. Westcott and Ho...