Relating to unfaithful leaders, the thief acts for his own good, not that of the flock.
The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep." I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. Verses 10-11: "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved." Here, looking beyond our earthly life, Jesus is saying that He is the way to be saved from hell and to enter into heaven. Shepherds often sleep across the gateway, to serve as both, shepherd, and door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture."Īs in our previous studies, these spiritually blind people did not understand what Jesus was saying. 8All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
7So Jesus again said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. Verses 6-9: "This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them. The stranger would be the thief or robber, (the Pharisees who had sought to mislead the sheep). Verse 5: "A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers." In the Old Testament, God called His special people by name. It was customary for shepherds to call their sheep by name. The gift of, "the cross of Jesus" included the gift of hearing from God through the Holy Spirit, something Judaism in that day did not consider possible. In the Old Testament, the Spirit was not yet given so the way Israel heard God's voice was by reading Scripture, and hearing from God through the Prophets. 4When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice." The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. Verses 2-4: "But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. Shepherds continually guarded against both. Thieves were ones who broke in to steal robbers often lived in the wilderness and would assault and rob passersby. The Jewish law distinguished between thieves and robbers. The pen usually had a stone wall, which might have briers on top of it. Sheep were kept inside a pen (sheepfold), on cold winter nights. Verse 1: "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber." If anyone enters by me, he will be saved."īut it seems the people are both spiritually deaf and blind and once again try to arrest him, but He does not give up. It was essential for them to know who He was, and in this study, He continues to tell them: The Old Covenant would soon be ending, and Jesus was preparing the people for a New Covenant, to be ushered in upon His resurrection.
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