14I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
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My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
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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