John 10:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

all, as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them;

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  • Ezek 34:2 : 2 `Son of man, prophesy concerning shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and thou hast said unto them: To the shepherds, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo `to' the shepherds of Israel, Who have been feeding themselves! The flock do not the shepherds feed?
  • Ezek 22:25-28 : 25 A conspiracy of its prophets `is' in its midst, as a roaring lion tearing prey; The soul they have devoured, Wealth and glory they have taken, Its widows have multiplied in its midst. 26 Its priests have wronged My law, And they pollute My holy things, Between holy and common they have not made separation, And between the unclean and the clean they have not made known, And from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, And I am pierced in their midst. 27 Its princes in its midst `are' as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain. 28 And its prophets have daubed for them with chalk, Seeing a vain thing, and divining for them a lie, Saying, `Thus said the Lord Jehovah:' And Jehovah hath not spoken.
  • John 10:1 : 1 `Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;
  • John 10:5 : 5 and a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, because they have not known the voice of strangers.'
  • John 10:27 : 27 according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,
  • Acts 5:36 : 36 for before these days rose up Theudas, saying, that himself was some one, to whom a number of men did join themselves, as it were four hundred, who was slain, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered, and came to nought.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her heads in her midst `are' roaring lions, Her judges `are' evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.
  • Zech 11:4-9 : 4 Thus said Jehovah my God: `Feed the flock of the slaughter, 5 Whose buyers slay them, and are not guilty, And their sellers say, Blessed `is' Jehovah, And I am rich, And their shepherds have no pity on them. 6 For I have pity no more on inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah, And lo, I am causing man to come forth, Each into the hand of his neighbour, And into the hand of his king, And they have beaten down the land, And I do not deliver out of their hand.' 7 And I feed the flock of slaughter, even you, ye afflicted of the flock; and I take to me two staves, the one I have called Pleasantness, and the other I have called Bands, and I feed the flock. 8 And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, and my soul is grieved with them, and also their soul hath abhorred me. 9 And I say, `I do not feed you, the dying, let die; and the cut off, let be cut off; and the remaining ones, let each eat the flesh of its neighbour.'
  • Zech 11:16 : 16 For lo, I am raising up a shepherd in the land, The cut off he doth not inspect, The shaken off he doth not seek, And the broken he doth not heal, The standing he doth not sustain, And the flesh of the fat he doth eat, And their hoofs he doth break off.
  • Isa 56:10-12 : 10 Blind `are' his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them `are' dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 And the dogs `are' strong of desire, They have not known sufficiency, And they `are' shepherds! They have not known understanding, All of them to their own way they did turn, Each to his dishonest gain from his quarter: 12 `Come ye, I take wine, And we drink, quaff strong drink, And as this day hath been to-morrow, Great -- exceeding abundant!'
  • Jer 23:1 : 1 Wo to shepherds destroying, And scattering the flock of My pasture, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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  • John 10:1-7
    7 verses
    85%

    1 `Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;

    2 and he who is entering through the door is shepherd of the sheep;

    3 to this one the doorkeeper doth open, and the sheep hear his voice, and his own sheep he doth call by name, and doth lead them forth;

    4 and when his own sheep he may put forth, before them he goeth on, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;

    5 and a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, because they have not known the voice of strangers.'

    6 This similitude spake Jesus to them, and they knew not what the things were that he was speaking to them;

    7 Jesus said therefore again to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you -- I am the door of the sheep;

  • John 10:9-16
    8 verses
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    9 I am the door, through me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and he shall come in, and go out, and find pasture.

    10 `The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have `it' abundantly.

    11 `I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;

    12 and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep;

    13 and the hireling doth flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep.

    14 `I am the good shepherd, and I know my `sheep', and am known by mine,

    15 according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,

    16 and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd.

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    25 Jesus answered them, `I told you, and ye do not believe; the works that I do in the name of my Father, these testify concerning me;

    26 but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep,

    27 according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,

    28 and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish -- to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand;

    29 my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father;

  • 15 `But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.

  • Ezek 34:6-10
    5 verses
    71%

    6 Go astray do My flock on all the mountains, And on every high hill, And on all the face of the land have My flock been scattered, And there is none inquiring, and none seeking.

    7 Therefore, shepherds, hear a word of Jehovah:

    8 I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, If not, because of My flock being for a prey, Yea, My flock is for food to every beast of the field, Because there is no shepherd, And My shepherds have not sought My flock, And the shepherds do feed themselves, And My flock they have not fed.

    9 Therefore, O shepherds, hear a word of Jehovah:

    10 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I `am' against the shepherds, And have required My flock from their hand, And caused them to cease from feeding the flock, And no more do the shepherds feed themselves, And I have delivered My flock from their mouth, And they are not to them for food.

  • 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

  • 6 Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

  • 47 he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'

  • 48 And Jesus answering said to them, `As against a robber ye came out, with swords and sticks, to take me!

  • 8 Jesus answered, `I said to you that I am `he'; if, then, me ye seek, suffer these to go away;'

  • 1 Wo to shepherds destroying, And scattering the flock of My pasture, An affirmation of Jehovah.

  • 27 and Jesus saith to them -- `All ye shall be stumbled at me this night, because it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad,

  • 3 And he spake unto them this simile, saying,

  • 31 then saith Jesus to them, `All ye shall be stumbled at me this night; for it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad;

  • 32 and gathered together before him shall be all the nations, and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd doth separate the sheep from the goats,

  • 28 Jesus cried, therefore, in the temple, teaching and saying, `Ye have both known me, and ye have known whence I am; and I have not come of myself, but He who sent me is true, whom ye have not known;

  • 20 These sayings spake Jesus in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come;

  • 6 and be going rather unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

  • 43 `I have come in the name of my Father, and ye do not receive me; if another may come in his own name, him ye will receive;

  • 23 and he said to them, `Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;

  • 45 it is having been written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God; every one therefore who heard from the Father, and learned, cometh to me;

  • Ezek 34:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2 `Son of man, prophesy concerning shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and thou hast said unto them: To the shepherds, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo `to' the shepherds of Israel, Who have been feeding themselves! The flock do not the shepherds feed?

    3 The fat ye do eat, and the wool ye put on, The fed one ye slaughter, the flock ye feed not.

  • 47 Every one who is coming unto me, and is hearing my words, and is doing them, I will shew you to whom he is like;

  • 6 `Ye may not give that which is `holy' to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned -- may rend you.

  • 26 many things I have to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I -- what things I heard from Him -- these I say to the world.'

  • 1 A Psalm of David. Jehovah `is' my shepherd, I do not lack,

  • 28 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am `he'; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;

  • 30 and Jesus having taken up `the word', said, `A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and having stripped him and inflicted blows, they went away, leaving `him' half dead.