James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - John 10:14-15
FOURFOLD KNOWLEDGE‘I am the Good Shepherd, and know My sheep, and am known of Mine. As the Father knoweth Me, even so know I the Father.’ John 10:14-Ezra : The important word in this sentence is the word ‘known’—the fourfold knowledge of Christ and His people, which forms a chain, a chain essential to our salvation. If one link in that chain be taken away, then every hope we have of heaven would fall to the ground. Observe it carefully. I. First, Christ ‘knows’ the Father.—He ‘knew’ Him when... read more
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - John 10:14
INDIVIDUAL KNOWLEDGE‘I am the Good Shepherd, and know, My sheep, and am known of Mine.’ John 10:14 Few things come more closely home to true Christians than the shepherdly love which the Lord bestows upon them.His word to us is this: ‘I am the Good Shepherd, and know My sheep, and am known of Mine.’ And the Revised Version brings out a depth of meaning here. ‘I know Mine own, and Mine own know Me, even as the Father knoweth Me, and I know the Father.’ So intimate is the knowledge between the... read more