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James Nisbet

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

James Nisbet

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

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 10:1-18

The Good Shepherd and the False Shepherds (John 10:1-18 ). The way that the parable opens emphasises the fact that the parable is as much about the false shepherds as it is about the true. It is a studied warning against looking to false teachers and false leaders, although having said that it at the same time contrasts and highlights the true Shepherd. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 10:14-15

“I am the good shepherd, and I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep’. The relationship between Jesus and His own is likened to His relationship with the Father, and nothing could be closer than that. What an incredible privilege that is. The idea is of an intimate, personal two-way relationship which cannot be broken. He knows them. They know Him. It is like the relationship between the Father and the Son, the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - John 10:1-21

John 10. The Close of the Ministry in Jerusalem. [85] John 10:1-Ecclesiastes : . The Good Shepherd.— The first part of this chapter records Jesus’ teaching on true and false leadership. In John 10:1-Deuteronomy : we have a close resemblance to the Synoptic parable, with one dominant idea. The true leader, wielding the authority of one sent by God, calls out the willing obedience of the led. It arises directly out of the circumstances of the case. As usual the words, “ Verily, verily”... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 10:14

I am no hireling; the sheep are mine own; I have a true love and affection for them, which obliges me to a just and true care of them; I know them by name, (as was said before), by a particular distinct knowledge; or I love them, and have tender bowels for them. And as I know them, so I am mutually known, and owned, and acknowledged by them; they have heard my voice, and discerned between my voice and the voice of such as are strangers, refusing to follow them, but following me, going before... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - John 10:1-21

EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTESJohn 10:1-21 contain a discourse on false and true leaders and teachers in reference to Christ, under the allegoric parable of the fold and the good shepherd. The enmity of the Pharisees displayed toward Jesus after the miracle of healing the man born blind led to the assertion of John 9:39. “Are we blind also?” wonderingly asked some of the Pharisees. “You boast that you are not,” is the reply. “You have the light of the divine word, etc., but are wilfully blind... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 10:14

John 10:14 The True Sheep Our Lord here says that He and His sheep know each other; that His knowledge of them is one of the tokens of the Good Shepherd; and that their knowledge of Him is one of the tokens of the true sheep. Now, what is this knowledge by which His true sheep are known? It is the knowledge of friendship and love. It is something living and personal, arising out of the whole of our inward nature, and filling all our powers and affections. As He knows us, through and through all... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 10:14-15

John 10:14-15 The Shepherd of the Sheep Two things come up for consideration in this verse (1) The good Shepherd in His relation as such; (2) His work. I. The Shepherd stands in a twofold relation; on the one hand, to Him whose shepherd He is by authoritative appointment, and, on the other hand, to those who are His sheep, by free gift in the gospel, and by personal appropriation in the exercise of faith, wrought in them by the Spirit. (1) The sheep are given to Jesus Christ by the Father; and,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - John 10:1-42

Chapter 10So chapter 10, it would seem to be as just a continuation of this whole movement here of the blind man receiving his sight, being put out by the organized religious system, being taken in by Jesus Christ. And so Jesus said,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 ( John 10:1 ).Now later on He said, "I am the door." If a man tries to come by any other system, by any other way,... read more

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