John 10:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. ”

• John 10:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  This parable - See the notes at Matthew 13:3 . They understood not ... - They did not understand the meaning or design of the illustration.

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• John 10:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  This (b) parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. (b) This word "parable", which the evangelist uses here, signifies a hidden type of sp...

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• John 10:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  John 10. The Close of the Ministry in Jerusalem. [85] John 10:1-21 . The Good Shepherd. The first part of this chapter records Jesus-' teaching on true and false leadership. In John 10:1-5 we...

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• John 10:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  This parable . See note on "and we", &c. ( John 1:14 ). parable . wayside saying. Greek paroimia. Not parable, which is parabole. Paroimia Occurs in John here; and translated "proverb" in...

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• John 10:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  6. This parable. This is the reason why, proudly vaunting of their wisdom, they rejected the light of Christ; for in a matter not very obscure they are exceedingly dull of apprehension....

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• John 10:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

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• John 10:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were w...

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• John 10:6 - 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 10:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  This parable spake Jesus unto them. — Better, this allegory spake Jesus unto them. The word rendered “parable” is the wider word (παροιμία, paroimia ) which includes every kind of figurative and...

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• John 10:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 21 JESUS THE GOOD SHEPHERD. “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....

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• John 10:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “A Stone of Stumbling” John 9:35-41 ; John 10:1-6 In John 9:35 we hear of Jesus finding the outcast, whom the Pharisees had excommunicated; and this story is appropriately followed by a pict...

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• John 10:6 - 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 10:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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. (2) But he that entereth in by the door is the s...

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• John 10:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  This parable spake Jesus unto them ,.... To the Pharisees, who were with him, John 9:40 ; but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them ; the things spoken by him being d...

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• John 10:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. Ver. 6. But they understood not ] So thick brained and incapable we are, till that vail...

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• John 10:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  This parable spake Jesus: but they understood not , &c. In this symbolical way Jesus taught the Pharisees the difference between true and false teachers; but they did not understand the meaning...

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• John 10:6 - 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 10:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Good Shepherd.       1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some othe...

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• John 10:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Our Saviour was wont to instruct them in the mysteries of the kingdom of God by parables, that is, similitudes taken from reasonable actions of men, which might be, and were, proper to express spirit...

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• John 10:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Good Shepherd and the False Shepherds ( John 10:1-18 ). The way that the parable opens emphasises the fact that the parable is as much about the false shepherds as it is about the true. It is...

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• John 10:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 10:1-21 contain a discourse on false and true leaders and teachers in reference to Christ, under the allegoric parable of the fold and the good shepherd. The...

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• John 10:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 10:1-2 . 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. But he that entereth in by the d...

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• John 10:6 - 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 10:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold Shepherdhood The simple lesson which our Lord intended to teach in this familiar passage has often been strangely mistaken. The minds of men...

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• John 10:6 - 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 10:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Jesus the Good Shepherd. The parable of the sheepfold:

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• John 10:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 2:14 ; 1 John 5:20 ; Daniel 12:10 ; Isaiah 56:11 ; Isaiah 6:10 ; Isaiah 6:9 ; John 6:52 ; John 6:60 ; John 7:36 ; John 8:27 ; John 8:43 ; Matthew 13:13 ; Matthew 13:14 ; M...

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• John 10:6 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Door of the Sheepfold John 10:1-18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Let us consider the all-inclusiveness, and the all-exclusive-ness of Christ, as introductory to our theme. First of all Christ said: "...

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• John 10:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  They — The Pharisees, to whom our Lord more immediately spake, as appears from the close of the foregoing chapter.

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