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John 10:6

Jesus spoke to them with this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

In Context

5They will certainly not follow a stranger, but will flee from him because they do not recognize the voice of strangers.”

7So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the gate for the sheep.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:13That is why I speak to them in parables, because ‘they see but do not perceive, and they hear but do not listen or understand.’

John 6:52Then the Jews began to quarrel with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

John 7:36What does he mean by saying, ‘You will seek me, but you will not find me; and where I am going, you cannot come’?”

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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