John 10:5
But they do not follow a stranger; instead they flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6Jesus spoke this proverb to them. But they did not understand what he was saying to them.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:27Son, do not cease listening to doctrine, and do not be ignorant of the sermons of knowledge.
Luke 8:18Therefore, take care how you listen. For whoever has, it will be given to him; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”
Colossians 2:6Therefore, just as you have received the Lord Jesus Christ, walk in him.
2 Timothy 4:3For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine, but instead, according to their own desires, they will gather to themselves teachers, with itching ears,
1 John 2:19They went out from among us, but they were not of us. For, if they had been of us, certainly they would have remained with us. But in this way, it is made manifest that none of them are of us.
1 John 4:5They are of the world. Therefore, they speak about the world, and the world listens 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 →