John 10:5
They will not go after another who is not their keeper, but will go from him in flight, because his voice is strange to them.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
6In this Jesus was teaching them in the form of a story: but what he said was not clear to them.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:27A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.
Luke 8:18So take care how you give hearing, for to him who has will be given, and from him who has not will be taken even what he seems to have.
Colossians 2:6As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,
2 Timothy 4:3For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;
1 John 2:19They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.
1 John 4:5They are of the world, so their talk is the world's talk, and the world gives ear to them.
Matthew Henry on John 10:2-19
The Good Shepherd. 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. 2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. 4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5 And a stranger will they not follow, but… Read the whole commentary →