John 10:25

The Pulpit Commentary - John 10:25

Jesus answered them . The reply of Jesus is full of wisdom. If he had at once given an affirmative answer, they would have misunderstood him, because he was not the Christ of their expectations. If he had denied that he was the Messiah, he would have been untrue to his deepest consciousness of reality. The answer was: I spake with you —told you what I am— and ye believe not . To the woman in Samaria, to the Capernaites, to the blind man, to Peter and the other apostles, and in several... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 10:25

I told you - It is not recorded that Jesus had told them in so many words that he was the Christ, but he had used expressions designed to convey the same truth, and which many of them understood as claiming to be the Messiah. See John 5:19; John 8:36, John 8:56; John 10:1. The expression “the Son of God” they understood to be equivalent to the Messiah. This he had often used of himself in a sense not to be mistaken.The works - The miracles, such as restoring the blind, curing the sick, etc.In... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - John 10:24-26

John 10:24-26. Then came the Jews round about him, &c. Here the Jews came and required him to put them out of doubt, by telling them plainly, whether he was the Messiah or not: Jesus knowing that it was not information they were seeking, but an opportunity of accusing him to the Romans, as a seditious person, who aspired to be a king, directed them, as before, to form a judgment of him from his actions. Jesus answered, I told you, and ye believed not What our Lord had been lately... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - John 10:22-42

94. At the Feast of Dedication (John 10:22-42)The Feast of Dedication commemorated the rededication of the temple in 165 BC after the defeat of Antiochus Epiphanes (see ‘The New Testament World’). It was held about two months after the Feast of Tabernacles (cf. John 7:2) and was the Jews’ only winter festival (cf. John 10:22).Many Jews felt it was time Jesus made a clear public statement that he was the Messiah. Jesus replied that his works were a clear enough statement, but most of the Jews... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - John 10:25

told . He had not spoken to them as He did in John 4:26 ; John 9:35-37 , but the works were evidence enough to those who had eyes to see. Compare John 5:36 ; John 7:31 ; John 9:32 ; John 15:24 . believed. App-150 . My Father's name . Only occurs here and John 5:43 . Compare Revelation 14:1 . of = concerning. Greek. peri. App-104 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - John 10:25

Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, these bear witness of me. But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep.Jesus was not deceived by the sweet reasonableness of their friendly (?) question, for he well knew their murderous designs.I told you, and ye believed not ... Christ's bold declaration of himself as the Shepherd of Israel was clear enough in all of its glorious Messianic implications; but the spiritual overtones of that... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - John 10:25

John 10:25. Jesus answered them, I told you, &c.— "I have in effect told you over and over;"—for what our Lord had just been saying of himself in the preceding verses, as the good Shepherd, was in sense equivalent to a declaration of his being the Messiah: further, he had already performed those miracles which were to characterize and distinguish the Messiah, such as cleansing the lepers, curing the blind, &c. and if they had but judged by the characteristics of the Messiah given by... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - John 10:25

25, 26. Jesus answered them, I told you—that is, in substance, what I am (for example John 7:37; John 7:38; John 8:12; John 8:35; John 8:36; John 8:58). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 10:10-42

H. Jesus’ third visit to Jerusalem 7:10-10:42This section of the text describes Jesus’ teaching in Jerusalem during the feast of Tabernacles and the feast of Dedication. John evidently included it in His narrative because it contains important revelations of Jesus’ identity and explains the mounting opposition to Jesus that culminated in His crucifixion. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 10:22-30

Jesus’ claim to be the Messiah 10:22-30 read more

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