Thought on This Chapter
JN 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd
giveth his life for the sheep.
The Messiah was predicted under the image of a shepherd
in Eze. 34:23, Eze 37:24, and Zec 13:7. When Jesus is saying that He is
the good shepherd, it is a declaration that He is the Messiah that was promised.
JN 10:17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I
lay down my life, that I might take it again.
JN 10:18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of
myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This
commandment have I received of my Father.
In verses 17 and 18 Jesus says that He has the power to
lay down His life and take it up again. No human has this power.
This is another claim of deity.
JN 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and
they follow me:
JN 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they
shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Jesus then says that He gives His sheep eternal life.
And that He has the power to keep those that He gives eternal life to.
This again is a power that only belongs to God.
JN 10:30 I and my Father are one.
You cannot be one with God the Father unless you are
also God.
JN 10:31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone
him.
JN 10:32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I
shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
JN 10:33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work
we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest
thyself God.
Over and over in this chapter Jesus is declaring His
deity. Jesus is clearly God manifested in the flesh. The reaction of
the Jews shows that they understood what Jesus was declaring. They tried
to stone Him and gave the reason in verse 33. "thou, being a man, makest thyself
God." They understood what Jesus was declaring, but they refused to
believe it.
Praise God that not everyone refuses to believe.
Jesus then leaves and goes beyond Jordan and many believed on him there (vs.
42).
Thought On This Chapter
JN 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and
they follow me:
JN 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they
shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
You see the deity of Jesus in all the Gospels, but you
see it more in the book of John. Jesus claimed to give eternal life; only
God can do that. Jesus claimed that all who come to Him shall never
perish. NEVER. Jesus said that He holds you and that you cannot be
plucked out of His hand.
JN 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than
all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
He then says that those who come to Him are also held
by the Father's hand. The Father is greater than all. No one is
powerful enough to take your salvation from Him. Jesus is holding you, the
Father is holding you, and no devil, no man, nothing is greater than the Father.
Some will falsely claim that this means that the Father is greater than Jesus.
To make sure we don't miss understand Jesus then said this:
JN 10:30 I and my Father are one.
Jesus is one with the Father. Jesus is equal with
the Father. Jesus is God. There is only one God, but He is
manifested to us in three personalities. Each co-eternal, co-all knowing,
co-all powerful.
The Jews knew exactly what Jesus was claiming here.
Look at their reaction.
JN 10:31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone
him.
JN 10:32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I
shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
JN 10:33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work
we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest
thyself God.
Jesus could declare Himself to be God because He is
God.
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King James Bible Main Index:
JN 10:1 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.
JN 10:2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
JN 10:3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
JN 10:4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
JN 10:5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
JN 10:6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
JN 10:7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
JN 10:8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
JN 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
JN 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
JN 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
JN 10:12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
JN 10:13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
JN 10:14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
JN 10:15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
JN 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 there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
JN 10:17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
JN 10:18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
JN 10:19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.
JN 10:20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
JN 10:21 Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
JN 10:22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
JN 10:23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
JN 10:24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
JN 10:25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
JN 10:26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
JN 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
JN 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
JN 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
JN 10:30 I and my Father are one.
JN 10:31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
JN 10:32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
JN 10:33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
JN 10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
JN 10:35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
JN 10:36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
JN 10:37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
JN 10:38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
JN 10:39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
JN 10:40 And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.
JN 10:41 And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.
JN 10:42 And many believed on him there.
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JN 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill,
and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it
more abundantly.
JN 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd
giveth his life for the sheep.
Many people will not come to Christ because they think
that accepting Jesus will ruin their life. They think that accepting Jesus
will ruin their "fun". When they believe that they are
just accepting a deception of Satan. The fact is that
Jesus came that we might have life, and that we might have it more abundantly.
I did not know what living really was until I got saved.
In fact I enjoy life more now. And the enjoyment that I have after I got
saved is without the "worms" that Satan's fun has.
It has been well said that all of Satan's apples have
worms. There is pleasure in sin for a season but there is always a high
price to pay in the end.
It is much better to live for Jesus who is the good
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