John 10:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

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

  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...

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• John 10:25 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (8) 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. (8) The doctrine of the gospel is proved from heaven by two witnesses: bot...

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• John 10:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Feast of the Dedication. Mg., At that time suggests a closer connexion with what precedes than the old reading And. But in any case the notes of time are not precise. The Feast of the Dedicat...

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• John 10:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  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...

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• John 10:25 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  25. I have told you. Our Lord Jesus (299) does not conceal that he is the Christ, and yet he does not teach them as if they were willing to learn, but rather reproaches them with obstinate...

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• John 10:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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. I told you, etc. - That is, I told you before what I tell you now again, that t...

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• John 10:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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...

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

  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. Jesus answered them, I told you - that is, in substance (see John 7:37...

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• John 10:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Good Shepherd. The Feast of the Dedication 1-18. Allegories of the Fold and of the Good Shepherd. This chapter continues Christ's discourse to His Pharisaic disciples begun at John 9:39 . His...

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• John 10:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  I told you, and ye believed not. — Better, and ye believe not, as all the best MSS. Here, as in John 8:25 , where a similar direct question was put to Him, the answer is indirect. It could not b...

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• John 10:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 22 JESUS, SON OF GOD. “And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch. The Jews therefore came round about Him,...

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• John 10:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Our Assurance of Safe-Keeping John 10:19-30 Our Lord did not shrink from the avowal of His divine origin and glory, when there was need or when they were challenged. See John 4:26 ; Matthew 2...

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• John 10:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Continuing, He gave a more detailed picture of that coming order. There was to be a fold, with a door. There was to be a flock, with a shepherd. Entrance to the fold would be by the door. The flock w...

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• John 10:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings. (20) And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him? (21) Others said, These are not the words of him that...

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• John 10:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not ,.... He had often said, what amounted to it, in his ministry and doctrine; as that God was his Father, and he was the light of the world, and th...

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• John 10:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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. Ver. 25. I told you, and ye believed not ] q.d. Your malice lies in the w...

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• John 10:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 i...

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• John 10:25 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE SHEPHERD (vs.1-18) Now the Lord speaks in parabolic form, again in verse 1 doubly pressing the truth of His words. One climbing the fence of the sheepfold (rather then enter...

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• John 10:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ's Conference with the Jews.       22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.   23 And Jesus walked...

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• John 10:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I have in effect told it you more than once; I have told you that I am sent of the Father, &c., I have said enough for you to conclude it; but you will not understand, you will not receive it, yo...

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• John 10:25 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Feast of Dedication ( John 10:22-42 ).

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• John 10:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 10:22-38 . Our Lord’s utterances at the feast of dedication on His oneness with the Father, etc. —This feast (τὰ ἐγκαίνια—the Encænia) was post-exilic in its...

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• John 10:25 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 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. The positiveness of our Lord's t...

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• John 10:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 10:1 . He that entereth not by the door is a thief and a robber. After the scribes had formed a plot against the life of the good shepherd, he told them that they were not the children of Abr...

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• John 10:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Then came the Jews round about Him The scene and circumstances Here in this bright colonnade, decked for the feast with glittering trophies, Jesus was walking up and down, quietly, and apparent...

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• John 10:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION John 10:1-43 5. Christ the Shepherd of the flock of God . The discourse which now follows was the Lord's parabolic or allegoric reply to the conduct of the Pharisaic malign...

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• John 10:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Christ's Sermon at the Feast of Dedication. The testimony of Jesus concerning Himself:

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• John 10:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 10:38 ; Acts 2:22 ; Hebrews 2:3 ; John 10:32 ; John 10:38 ; John 11:47 ; John 12:37 ; John 14:11 ; John 20:30 ; John 3:2 ; John 5:17-43 ; John 5:36 ; John 7:31 ; John 8:12 ; John...

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