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John 10:6

This allegory spake Jesus to them; but they knew not what he said to them.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

5But after a stranger the flock will not follow, but it fleeth from him; because it knoweth not the voice of a stranger.

7And Jesus said to them again: Verily, verily, I say to you, That I am the door of the flock.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:13For this cause I discourse to them in similitudes, because they see and do not see, and they hear and do not hear, nor understand.

John 6:52Then the Jews contended one with another, and said: How can he give us his body to eat?

John 7:36What means this speech he uttered: Ye will seek me, and will not find me; and where I am, ye 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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