John 10:6

Jesus spoke to them in this figurative language, but they did not understand what He meant.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 a stranger they will by no means follow, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

7Again therefore Jesus said to them, "In most solemn truth I tell you that I am the Door of the sheep.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:13I speak to them in figurative language for this reason, that while looking they do not see, and while hearing they neither hear nor understand.

John 6:52This led to an angry debate among the Jews. "How can this man," they argued, "give us his flesh to eat?"

John 7:36What do those words of his mean, `You will look for me, but will not find me, and where I am 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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