Bible Commentaries
John 10

Verse 1

Joh 10:1

John 10:1

THE PARABLE OF THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP.

John 10:1-6.

It is doubtful whether the teaching that follows was spoken in connection with the preceding chapter. Some think the former chapter was spoken at the feast of tabernacles (chap­ter 7) and this at the feast of dedication (verse 22) in the winter. They are distinct enough to have been spoken on different occasions, and yet enough similarity to be a contin­uation of the same discourse.

There are two parables presented here that are often com­bined as one. This creates some confusion. Again, persons frequently conclude that because a person or fact represents one thing in a parable it must do it in all parables. This produces confusion. The first parable here spoken concludes with verse 6. A second and distinct parable begins with verse 7 and concludes with verse 10. In the first parable, Jesus is the Shepherd entering into the fold and calling his sheep. In the second, Jesus is the door by or through which the

sheep enter into the fold of God. After the conclusion of the two parables, he presents truths drawn from them.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.—He explains in this who is the true Shepherd or Christ and who are false Christs. The true Christ enters by the door. This parable is based on what is said to be the practice of the shepherds in the east. The different flocks of sheep are gathered at night into one common fold, the door is closed, a porter keeps the door, and in the morning the shepherds come, the porter opens the door to him as he comes, he calls his sheep by name, and the sheep know their shepherd’s voice, and follow him. This is to show that Christ the true Shepherd comes to the door; the porter opens to him, he enters, calls his sheep, and they follow him. All who come claiming to be Christs that do not enter the open door are false Christs, are thieves and robbers.

Verses 1-21

Joh 10:1-21

The Shepherd and His Flock - John 10:1-21

Open It

1. *What person or group did you and your friends "follow" when you were a teenager?

2. What qualities do the best friends possess?

Explore It

3. Who did Jesus say was a thief and a robber? (John 10:1)

4. What kind of relationship do sheep have with their shepherd? (John 10:2-4)

5. *Why won’t sheep follow a stranger? (John 10:5)

6. What effect did Jesus’ words have on His audience? (John 10:6)

7. What did Jesus say He was? (John 10:7)

8. To whom did Jesus say the sheep did not listen? (John 10:8)

9. What did Jesus say would be the result of entering through Him? (John 10:9)

10. *How did Jesus contrast His coming with the coming of a thief? (John 10:10)

11. Who did Jesus claim to be? (John 10:11)

12. Why did Jesus say the hired hand would abandon his sheep? (John 10:12-13)

13. What type of relationship did Jesus say He had with His sheep? (John 10:14)

14. *What did Jesus say He did for His sheep? (John 10:15)

15. What did Jesus say He had? (John 10:16)

16. Why did Jesus say the Father loved Him? (John 10:17-18)

17. What effect did Jesus’ words have on the Jews who heard Him speak? (John 10:19-21)

Get It

18. In what way is Jesus like a gate?

19. How has Jesus been a gate in your life?

20. *In what way is Jesus like a shepherd?

21. How are we like sheep?

22. In what way is Jesus your shepherd?

23. How would you describe your relationship with Jesus?

24. *How can we better hear the voice of Jesus?

25. What tempts people to follow a stranger? Why?

26. How has Jesus made your life full?

Apply It

27. How can you develop a more intimate relationship with Jesus this week?

28. *How can you be more attentive to the voice of Jesus?

Verse 2

Joh 10:2

John 10:2

But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.—The door, it seems to me, is the entering into the way pointed out by the prophets. To come as they foretold is to enter by the door into the work of saving the world. [The prophecies pointing to the coming of Christ was the door through which he passed. He fulfilled all of them. He who claims to be the shepherd of the sheep, failing to fulfill these prophecies, has climbed up some other way than going through the door, and is therefore a thief and a robber.]

Verse 3

Joh 10:3

John 10:3

To him the porter openeth;—[The gatekeeper. One man was left in charge of the fold who spent the night there on watch against thieves and wild beasts. When the hour ar­rived for leading out the flocks in the morning, the shepherd came to the door and being recognized was admitted by the porter.] The porter that is to admit and bear testimony to Christ the Shepherd, it seems to me, is John the Baptist. He was the forerunner of Jesus to bear witness to him and intro­duce him as the Shepherd of the fold of God.

and the sheep hear his voice:—[“Hear” is used in the sense of intelligent hearing. They recognize and give heed to his voice. They could “hear” simply a rabbi’s voice as well as the shepherd’s.]

and he calleth his own sheep by name,—[This corresponds exactly with the facts of eastern shepherd life. They give names to sheep as we do to our tame animals. It denotes Christ’s individual interest in each soul.]

and leadeth them out.—[To pasture where there is plenty to feed upon.] Those ready to receive the spiritual shepherd and hear his voice are led by him out into green pastures of the children of God.

Verse 4

Joh 10:4

John 10:4

When he hath put forth all his own,—[Has separated his sheep from those of his neighbors.]

he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him:—[This is in accordance with oriental custom to this day. Sheep are not driven but led, the shepherd walking in front occa­sionally uttering a peculiar voice.]

for they know his voice.—[Distinct from that of all other voices.] Jesus leads by his teaching and example, and those willing to hear follow out of the fold of Judaism into the privileges of Christ.,

Verse 5

Joh 10:5

John 10:5

And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.—[An eastern sheep will not follow a strange voice.] One whose voice is not attended by the divine teaching a true disciple will not hear. All who came claiming to be Christs were thieves and robbers who came to steal and rob.

Verse 6

Joh 10:6

John 10:6

This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.—This was a completed parable that the people did not understand what he meant to teach. They had not understood and be­lieved those who had gone before him.

Verse 7

Joh 10:7

John 10:7

Jesus therefore said unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep—He then introduces another parable to show how the sheep may enter into the fold of God and find the care and protection they need to protect them from the thieves and robbers that would destroy them for their selfish ends. Jesus himself is the door into the fold. We enter into the fold of God by entering in or through Christ. [The prophecies were the door through which Christ came and Christ is the door through which we go into the church of Christ. There is but one door or entrance. All who enter the church must go through this door. Baptism is the completing act that puts us through the door into Christ or the church. (Matthew 28:19; Galatians 3:27; John 3:5). The “door” here represents Jesus beyond doubt, but how? In the fold is shelter by night, in the pasture is sustenance by day. Through the door they pass to one at night, to the other in the morning. The door then represents the gateway to all our spiritual blessings.]

Verse 8

Joh 10:8

John 10:8

All that came before me are thieves and robbers:—All that came before him claiming to be Christs in and through whom they could enter the fold of God were thieves and robbers [for the reason they did not fulfill the prophecies re­lating to Christ. Instead of entering in through the door, they climbed up some other way.]

but the sheep did not hear them.—[Those who were pre­pared for Christ came to him in spite of them as did the blind man of the previous chapter. They are goats, not true sheep, that wander off after false teachers.]

Verse 9

Joh 10:9

John 10:9

I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved,—[From all the skulkers of the night, the hosts of evil, that would fain destroy the sheep.] If any one enters the fold of God through Christ as the door, he shall be saved.

and shall go in and go out, and shall find pasture.—Afe the shepherd leads his sheep in for protection and out for pasture and water so Christ will give these protection and food. This is a reference to the shepherd leading his flock out to the pasture and into the cote or fold for protection. It means that God affords his children food and protection. No parable is intended to apply in all its parts, but one leading point or feature represents the lesson intended to be taught. [Jesus is at once the door, the shepherd, and the pasture. His pasture is the bread of life and the water of life. All who enter by him in the way ordained by God are saved and shall never be lost unless they cease to continue to hear and obey his voice. This is a picture of the happy, contented life of the sheep folded by night and fed by day. So may those who have entered into Christ rest in peace sure that he will lead them by day and protect them by night.]

Verse 10

Joh 10:10

John 10:10

The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy:—The false Christ comes only for selfish purposes and will kill and destroy others for his selfish ends. [All those who enter otherwise than by the door wish to prey upon the flock. Their object is not to save the flock, but to destroy it. False religion robs men; true religion blesses and enriches them. After having served for the satisfaction of their pride, ambition, and cupidity they will perish morally, and at least even externally by the effect of this pernicious guidance. The false and selfish teacher is not only a thief who steals the substance and the opportunities of the flock, but a destroyer. This is a universal truth that any person of wide observation has seen illustrated too often. He destroys the spiritual life of the flock, leads it away from God, fills it with false doctrines, destroys the faith that is in men’s hearts, and scatters the flock abroad until the sheep can no longer be found at the Lord’s house. My observation is that this is, sooner or later, the picture of the pastor system. Too many preach to satisfy the money and popular sides.]

I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.—[Overflowingly; richfulness of nourishment (Comp. Psalms 23); abundance of spiritual possessions (grace and truth) (John 1:14) in which the life consists.] Jesus the true Shepherd will lay down his life to save the sheep and for their growth to a higher good.

Verse 11

Joh 10:11

John 10:11

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.—He distinctly announces that he him­self is the good Shepherd who came from heaven to earth to give his life to save those who would trust and follow him.

Verse 12

Joh 10:12

John 10:12

He that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, beholdeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth, and the wolf snatcheth them, and scattereth them:—Others who are hirelings or work for selfish ends for­sake the sheep and flee when they see danger approaching and leave the sheep to be destroyed. [“The laborer is worthy of his hire,” and hence it is not the bare fact of a man receiv­ing pay that makes him a hireling. He is a hireling who would not work were it not for the money he receives. He only cares for his own selfish ends. He will lead the flock away from hope with false doctrines when popularity lends its influence in that direction. Those he described above as thieves and robbers, he now describes as hirelings. Thus true and false shepherds are described.]

Verse 13

Joh 10:13

John 10:13

he fleeth because he is a hireling,—He whose labor is for selfish ends flees when danger threatens, and when the chances are he will lose instead of gain by the danger. [All his care and love is centered on his pay and self-interest, and none on the church. It is said that “when yellow fever struck Memphis the hireling shepherds fled to the north.”]

and careth not for the sheep.—He works for his own selfish good and not for the good of others.

Verse 14

Joh 10:14

John 10:14

I am the good shepherd; and I know mine own, and mine own know me,—There is a recognition that certain per­sons, when they hear the truth, will accept and follow it. Jesus recognizes that these are his before they hear the gos­pel and accept it. In this sense he is known of his own and knows them. In verse 16 he speaks of those who are his own, but not of this fold. The Lord told Paul at Corinth, “I have much people in this city” (Acts 18:10) before they had heard or believed the gospel. They loved the truth, and were of that frame of mind that when they heard it would accept and follow it.

Verse 15

Joh 10:15

John 10:15

even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.—The Father knew Jesus would lay down his life for the sheep and because he loved the truth himself, and so loved that he was willing to die to lead all willing to follow truth.

Verse 16

Joh 10:16

John 10:16

And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and they shall become one flock, one shepherd.—Among the Gentiles were many who, when they heard the truth, would accept and fol­low Jesus. These he calls his sheep of another fold. He would call them and of the two he would make one fold under one Shepherd.

Verse 17

Joh 10:17

John 10:17

Therefore doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.—The reason God loved Jesus and sent him to save sinners was because he had no will save to do the will of God and was willing to die to save all who would serve God. He gave his life with the full assurance that he would take it up again.

Verse 18

Joh 10:18

John 10:18

No one taketh it away from me, but I lay it down of myself.—While the Father desired that Jesus should give his life for the world, no necessity was laid on him to do it against his own will. Indeed he was chosen of the Father to make this sacrifice because he designed to give his life for the world.

I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment received I from my Father.—While wicked men took his life by violence, he could have called twelve legions of angels to his deliverance had he de­sired. While he drew back from the bitter cup of death offered him, it was only momentarily so, for he came for this end, and pursued it to the bitter end. While it was his will, yet in doing it, he acted according to the commandment of God. [He laid down his life at the cross and took it again at the resurrection.]

Verse 19

Joh 10:19

John 10:19

There arose a division again among the Jews because of these words.—The teachings of Jesus always produced divi­sion among those who heard. Some were willing to hear and believe, others would reject it. It is so now. As much depends upon the condition of the heart of the hearers as upon the amount of the testimony given. Those not willing to believe are influenced and embittered by additional testi­mony.

Verse 20

Joh 10:20

John 10:20

And many of them said, He hath a demon, and is mad; why hear ye him?—Some attributed his speech and works to a demon. [The Jews believed that demons could produce supernatural effects. (Matthew 12:24). They used this as a foundation in explaining the miraculous power of Christ.]

Verse 21

Joh 10:21

John 10:21

Others said, These are not the sayings of one possessed with a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?—Others insisted that demons did not talk in this way, and especially that a demon could not open the eyes of the blind. Demons could sometimes do supernatural works, but they were never good works or helpful to man. [Their question suggests that demons could not do miraculous good works like healing the blind. It had never been known that demons could open the eyes of the blind.]

[Here the historian shows what different effects the teach­ing of Jesus had upon the Jews. Many of them calumniate and slander him as one possessed of a demon and mad, and therefore not to be heard and obeyed; others of calmer thoughts and more levelheaded said that the doctrine he taught, and the late miracle which he had wrought in curing the blind man, were abundantly sufficient to confute such a groundless slander. Note, that the teaching of Christ meeting with diversity of dispositions—it is no wonder it occasions different effects to the softening of some and hardening of others; even as the same sun that melts the wax hardens the clay; yet this is not to be attributed to the teaching of Jesus, but to men’s corruptions which oppose the truth and the maintainers of it.]

Verse 22

Joh 10:22

John 10:22

And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem:—Herod the Great had rebuilt the temple—was forty-six years in restoring it—and a feast celebrating that dedication was observed to perpetuate it.

Verses 22-42

Joh 10:22-42

The Unbelief of the Jews - John 10:22-42

Open It

1. What truths are hard for you to accept? Why?

2. *How did your family typically handle conflict when you were growing up?

Explore It

3. *What question did the Jews ask Jesus? (John 10:22-24)

4. How did Jesus answer the Jews’ question? (John 10:25-26)

5. What did Jesus say His sheep did? (John 10:27)

6. What did Jesus say He gave to His sheep? (John 10:28)

7. What did Jesus say that no one could do to His sheep? (John 10:28-29)

8. With whom did Jesus claim to be one? (John 10:30)

9. *How did the Jews respond to Jesus’ claim? (John 10:31)

10. Why did the Jews want to kill Jesus? (John 10:33) How?

11. How did Jesus respond to the Jews’ accusation of blasphemy? (John 10:34-36)

12. Under what circumstance did Jesus say that the Jews should believe in Him? (John 10:37)

13. *Why did Jesus say that the Jews should believe in His miracles? (John 10:38)

14. What did the Jews try to do to Jesus? (John 10:39)

15. Where did Jesus go after He escaped from the Jews? (John 10:40)

16. Why did the people across the Jordan believe in Jesus? (John 10:41-42)

Get It

17. Why do people today fail to realize that Jesus is God?

18. In what way are you Jesus’ sheep?

19. What makes you feel secure in your relationship with your friends?

20. *What makes you feel secure in your relationship with God?

21. How secure is your relationship with God?

22. *Why does Jesus’ claim to be God cause people to oppose Him?

23. Who today would find Jesus’ claim to be God offensive?

24. In what way is Jesus’ relationship with God significant for your relationship with God?

25. Why should people believe in Jesus?

Apply It

26. How will you demonstrate your thankfulness to God today for your secure relationship with Him?

27. *What steps will you take to follow your Shepherd closely this week?

Verse 23

Joh 10:23

John 10:23

it was winter;—Near the time when the people in this country celebrate Christmas. [This feast came in December, but the day is not certain.]

and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon’s porch.—This was a large portion of the temple, four hundred feet long, in which numbers could congregate.

Verse 24

Joh 10:24

John 10:24

The Jews therefore came round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou hold us in suspense?—The Jews clearly saw that there was something above the ordinary human being in speech and works of Jesus and persuaded themselves that they desired to know and do the truth.

If thou art the Christ, tell us plainly.—They desired that he should make a plain declaration as to whether he was the Christ.

Verse 25

Joh 10:25

John 10:25

Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believe not; the works that I do in my Father’s name, these bear witness of me.—While Jesus occasionally told those to whom he spoke that he was the Christ, generally he left the works that he did to make the impression, and when he saw a willingness to promptly accept the truth, he told them that he was the Christ. But when they caviled about his work and showed a desire to reject him, he refused to tell them. He chided them here with having refused to believe either his word or the works the Father had done through him. These people had seen many works performed at Jerusalem on his frequent visits to the city and had seen the blind mentioned in the ninth chapter healed. Matthew 11:5 gives an enumeration of the miracles he performed in their midst.

Verse 26

Joh 10:26

John 10:26

But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep.—They in that state of heart were determined not to believe, so he refused not to recognize them as his sheep. You are not of that class who are willing to receive the truth. He had tried them. (John 12:39-40; Matthew 13:14-15).

Verse 27

Joh 10:27

John 10:27

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:—He and those willing to hear him both loved truth and were naturally drawn to each other.

Verse 28

Joh 10:28

John 10:28

and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,—As a result of their hearing and following him, they should never perish.

and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.—None could separate them from Christ while they were anxious to do his will. No one can separate one anxious to follow Christ from him. Only the person himself can separate from Christ, and he can do this only by refusing to hear him.

Verse 29

Joh 10:29

John 10:29

My Father, who hath given them unto me, is greater than all;—God the Father is the provider and protector of all. He had given to Christ all who were willing to follow him. “No man can come to me, except the Father that sent me draw him: and I will raise him up in the last day. It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that hath heard from the Father, and hath learned, cometh unto me.” (John 6:44-45). Which shows that God gave to Jesus those who had heard and learned of the prophets and were willing to receive him as the Christ.

and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.—[No man is able to do it, but the Father can and will if we cease to follow Jesus. (John 15:2). None shall ever fall away from want of divine grace, or the power of adversaries, but because they cease to hear and follow Jesus. By our own sins we are separated from God. (Isaiah 59:2).]

Verse 30

Joh 10:30

John 10:30

I and the Father are one.—They are one in nature, char­acter, and purpose, and worked in perfect harmony in saving men. His doing the will of God his Father was the evidence he was from God, that he was the Son of God, and that he was in the Father and the Father in him.

Verse 31

Joh 10:31

John 10:31

The Jews took up stones again to stone him.—To make himself one with God was regarded by the Jews as blas­phemy. And blasphemy was to be punished by death by stoning. (Leviticus 24:14-16).

Verse 32

Joh 10:32

John 10:32

Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from the Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?—Jesus hindered the stoning by appealing to the good works he had done—works of mercy and love—in healing the afflicted in their midst. Jesus knew they could not deny them so he confidently referred to them as known by the Jews about to stone him. It was unto these people that Peter boldly af­firmed that Jesus of Nazareth was “a man approved of God unto you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst, of you, even as ye yourselves know.” (Acts 2:22). judas testified (Matthew 27:4) that he was inno­cent and sealed his testimony with his own blood; Pilate testi­fied that he found no fault in him (Luke 23:4; Luke 23:14); the cen­turion who crucified him testified, “This was the Son of God” (Matthew 27:54); and here those who sought his life testify that they knew he did many miracles of good works in their midst.

These testimonies show that Jesus never did evil to a living soul. He was persecuted and crucified; but while receiving evil from many, he never returned evil. When the fleshly body passed away, the church of God as his spiritual body took its place in which his Spirit dwells. The spiritual body is nearer to the Son of God than his fleshly body ever was. Jesus is persecuted and stoned in the spiritual body as un­justly and as cruelly as he ever was in the fleshly body. He still returns only good for evil. Jesus the Christ in the spiritual body has never brought evil to a single soul, and this chal­lenge still comes to those who turn from him and neglect and abuse and divide and sever his spiritual body. “Many good works have I showed you from the Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?” All the good things of a material, intellectual, and spiritual nature we enjoy in this age of the world come from God and are the fruits borne by the tree planted by God two thousand years ago. They came to us through the spiritual body of Christ. It often exposes the evil, but it never produces it. It exposes it that its evil influences may be counteracted and destroyed. Jesus Christ came as a Savior to man, and neither in the fleshly nor the spiritual body did he ever injure or harm a living soul.

Churches claiming to be churches of God have injured and done harm to mortals, but it was the human grafts upon that tree planted by God that did the evil and bore the bitter fruit of humanity. Human grafts and trees of human plant­ing always bear bitter fruit. They can bear no other because man, their author and founder, is evil. An evil tree cannot bear good fruit any more than the good tree can bear evil fruit. A stream cannot rise higher than its fountain. All human kingdoms and all human grafts upon the divine tree can bear only evil and bitter fruit to humanity, and every friend of man and of God must set his face firmly against all human grafts upon the divine tree.

Verse 33

Joh 10:33

John 10:33

The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.—Here those anxious to kill Jesus are made to bear testimony to the many good works he did in their midst. They admitted that he had done these works, but insisted that they did not stone him for these works, but for making himself the Son of God when he was only a man.

Verses 34-36

Joh 10:34-36

John 10:34-36

Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken), say ye of him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?—Jesus quotes this to show that their own law recognizes those as gods who executed the law of God that came to them. As God’s servants, they enforced his law and the Psalmist calls them gods. If this be so, why should it be regarded as blas­phemy when one specially sent from God into the world calls himself the Son of God? [The word “sanctify” means to make holy or set apart. It is here used in the latter sense.]

Verse 37

Joh 10:37

John 10:37

If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not—He presents the works he did in their midst as the witness that he was from God and that God was with him.

Verse 38

Joh 10:38

John 10:38

But if I do them, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.—Independent of the words and claims of Jesus, the works that he did ought to prove to them that the Father was with and in Jesus doing the works and so approving him as sent of God. To this there was no reply. [If they had personal prejudices against Jesus, they ought to consider his works without prejudice.]

Verse 39

Joh 10:39

John 10:39

They sought again to take him: and he went forth out of their hand.—They sought to arrest him, and still even by physical force. How he escaped we are not told. [Here ends the three months of stormy ministry in the life of Jesus in Jerusalem. Twice they attempted to mob him (John 8:59; John 10:31); twice efforts were made to arrest him (John 7:32; John 7:45; John 10:39); and also secret plans to assassinate him had been laid (John 7:19; John 8:37).]

Verse 40

Joh 10:40

John 10:40

And he went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was at the first baptizing; and there he abode.—He left Judea because they would not believe him, and went to the east side of the Jordan to Bethabara where John had baptized and remained there for a time.

Verse 41

Joh 10:41

John 10:41

And many came unto him; and they said, John indeed did no sign: but all things whatsoever John spake of this man were true.—The teaching and miracles of Jesus brought many to see him wherever he abode.

Verse 42

Joh 10:42

John 10:42

And many believed on him there.—It is likely that the testimony of John at his baptism had a favorable influence in his behalf and his testimony and works caused many to believe on him at this place. [John’s preparatory work there was so thorough that they readily received and believed on Jesus. His work here was fruitful, due to the fact that “all things whatsoever John spake of this man were true.”]

Questions on John Chapter Ten

E.M. Zerr

1. What is used as a parable?

2. Is it possible to enter it unlawfully?

3. Who is here classed with thieves?

4.How does the shepherd enter?

5. Who recognizes him?

6. By whom is his voice heard?

7. In what way are they called and led?

8. Why do the sheep follow the shepherd?

9. Why flee from strangers?

10. How did the parable affect the hearers?

11. On what subject was the next parable?

12. What was the door into this?

13. All pretenders preceding him were what?

14. How did the sheep regard them?

15. By what must men enter?

16. With what results?

17. State the motive of the thief.

18. Tell that of the true shepherd.

19. How does he prove his faithfulness?

20. This contrasts with what character?

21. When does he flee?

22. Does he first provide for the sheep?

23. What happens to them?

24. Tell why the hireling flees.

25. Who mutually know each other?

26. State what is laid down for the sheep.

27. Was the first fold to be permanent?

28. Did it contain all of the sheep?

29. What was going to be done about it?

39. Tell the name of this second fold.

40. And its shepherd.

41. Why did his father love him?

42. State Jesus’ control over his life.

43. How did he obtain this power?

44. What discussion now took place by the Jews?

45. What deed was used in their argument?

46. Tell what was going on in Jerusalem.

47. Who surrounded Jesus?

48. State their inquiry.

49. Was it a candid one?

50. To what did Jesus refer for his proof?

51. How had they treated this evidence?

52. Why had they done so?

53. What is to be given the sheep?

54. Tell the assurances offered them.

55. Whose greatness guaranteed this?

56. State what two are one.

57. Why did they threaten to stone Jesus?

58. Tell what he asked them.

59. And their answer.

60. What writing did he then quote?

61. Tell what he called it.

62. How did he reason upon this scripture?

63. On what did Jesus stake his credit?

64. What did they again seek to do?

65. How was it prevented?

66. To what place did Jesus now go?

67. What about his following?

68. Tell what was said of John’s work.

69. And of his teaching.

70. With what result?