John 10:8

World English Bible (2000)

All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.

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  • Ezek 34:2 : 2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep?
  • Ezek 22:25-28 : 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in its midst. 26 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain. 28 Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken.
  • John 10:1 : 1 "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
  • John 10:5 : 5 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers."
  • John 10:27 : 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
  • Acts 5:36 : 36 For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
  • Zech 11:4-9 : 4 Thus says Yahweh my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter. 5 Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, 'Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;' and their own shepherds don't pity them. 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," says Yahweh; "but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them." 7 So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called "Favor," and the other I called "Union," and I fed the flock. 8 I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me. 9 Then I said, "I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other's flesh."
  • Zech 11:16 : 16 For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.
  • Isa 56:10-12 : 10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter. 12 "Come," [say they], "I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure."
  • Jer 23:1 : 1 Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh.

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    1"Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

    2But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

    3The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

    4Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

    5They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers."

    6Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.

    7Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door.

  • John 10:9-16
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    9I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

    10The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

    11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

    12He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

    13The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.

    14I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own;

    15even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

    16I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

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    25Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.

    26But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

    27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

    28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

    29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.

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    15"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

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    6My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.

    7Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:

    8As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep;

    9therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:

    10Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.

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    12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."

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    6Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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    47He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God."

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    48Jesus answered them, "Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me?

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    8Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,"

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    1Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh.

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    3He told them this parable.

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    31Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

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    32Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

  • John 7:28
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    28Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know.

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    20Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

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    6Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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    43I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

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    23He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

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    45It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.

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    2Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep?

    3You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.

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    47Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

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    6"Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

  • John 8:26
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    26I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."

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    1Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

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    28Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

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    30Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.