John 10:5

They will not follow a stranger, but will run away from him; because they do not know a stranger’s voice.”

Open English Bible (US)

In The King James Version

And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

In Context

4When he has brought them all out, he walks in front of them, and his sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

6This was the allegory that Jesus told them, but they did not understand of what he was speaking.

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Cross References

Luke 8:18Take care, then, how you listen. For, to all those who have, more will be given; while, from all those who have nothing, even what they seem to have will be taken away.”

Colossians 2:6Since, therefore, you have received Jesus, the Christ, as your Lord, live your lives in union with him –

2 Timothy 4:3For a time will come when people will not tolerate sound teaching. They will follow their own wishes, and, in their itching for novelty, procure themselves a crowd of teachers.

1 John 2:19These people come from our ranks, but they were never truly part of us – if they had been then they would have stayed with us. They left so it would be clear that none of them really belonged to us.

1 John 4:5Those people belong to the world and therefore they speak as the world speaks, 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 →

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