The shepherd of the sheep (ποιμην εστιν των προβατων). No article with ποιμην, "a shepherd to the sheep." He comes in by the door …

He that entereth by the door. This was the way in which a shepherd had access to his flock. In John 10:7 Jesus says he is the door. In thi…

John 10:16 finds the beginning of its fulfillment in this mission of this chapter. The appointment of a new body of disciples, whose ve…

Verily, verily, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber. B…

St. John Chrysostom: After our Lord reproached the Jews for their blindness, they might have said, “We are not blind; we avoid…

Jesus introduces this section with a solemn affirmation (“I tell you the truth”), emphasizing the importance of the teaching that the allegory cont…

But he that entereth in by the door
With a divine commission, and by a divine authority, who comes not of himself, b…

Here is a parable or similitude, taken from the customs of the East, in the management of sheep.

Men, as creatures depending on their Creator…

1. After our Lord showed that his teaching had power to enlighten, he here shows that he has power to give life.

   First, he shows this…