5And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
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They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. …
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: …
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; …
And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
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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