1Verily, 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.
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Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. …
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-18)It is not certain whether this discourse was at the feast of dedication in the winter (spoken of John 10:22), which may be taken as the date, not only of what follows, but of what goes before (that which countenances this is, that Christ, in his discourse there, carries on the metaphor of the sheep, John 10:26 , 27 , whence it seems that that discourse and this were at the same time); or whether t…
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