John 10:5

and a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, because they have not known the voice of strangers.'

Young's Literal Translation

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

4and when his own sheep he may put forth, before them he goeth on, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;

6This similitude spake Jesus to them, and they knew not what the things were that he was speaking to them;

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Cross References

Proverbs 19:27Cease, my son, to hear instruction — To err from sayings of knowledge.

Luke 8:18'See, therefore, how ye hear, for whoever may have, there shall be given to him, and whoever may not have, also what he seemeth to have, shall be taken from him.'

Colossians 2:6as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye,

2 Timothy 4:3for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers — itching in the hearing,

1 John 2:19out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but — that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.

1 John 4:5They — of the world they are; because of this from the world they speak, and the world doth hear 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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