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PARALLEL BIBLE - John 10:8


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King James Bible - John 10:8

All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.

World English Bible

All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.

Douay-Rheims - John 10:8

All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and the sheep heard them not.

Webster's Bible Translation

All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.

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:1 Isa 56:10-12 Eze 22:25-28; 34:2 Zep 3:3 Zec 11:4-9,16 Ac 5:36

SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:8

Todos los que antes de mí vinieron, ladrones son y robadores; mas no los oyeron las ovejas.

Clarke's Bible Commentary - John 10:8

Verse 8. All that ever came before me] Or, as some translate, all that came instead of me, pro emou, i.e. all that came as the
Christ, or Messiah, such as Theudas, and Judas the Gaulonite, who are mentioned, Acts v. 36, 37; and who were indeed no other than thieves, plundering the country wherever they came; and murderers, not only slaying the simple people who resisted them, but leading the multitudes of their followers to the slaughter.

But our Lord probably refers to the scribes and Pharisees, who pretended to show the way of salvation to the people-who in fact stole into the fold, and clothed themselves with the fleece, and devoured the sheep.

The words, pro emou, before me, are wanting in EGMS, Mt. BKV, seventy others; Syriac, Persic, Syriac Hieros., Gothic, Saxon, Vulgate, eleven copies of the Itala; Basil, Cyril, Chrysostom, Theophylact, Euthymius, Augustin, and some others. Griesbach has left them in the text with a note of doubtfulness. The reason thy these words are wanting in so many respectable MSS., versions, and fathers, is probably that given by Theophylact, who says that the Manicheans inferred from these words that all the Jewish prophets were impostors. But our Lord has borne sufficient testimony to their inspiration in a variety of places.

klepthv, and lhsthv, the thief and the robber, should be properly distinguished; one takes by cunning and stealth; the other openly and by violence. It would not be difficult to find bad ministers who answer to both these characters. Tithes have been often enforced and collected in a most exceptionable manner, and in a most disgraceful spirit.

The reflection of pious Quesnel on this verse is well worth attention. A pastor ought to remember that whoever boasts of being the way of salvation, and the gate of heaven, shows himself to be a thief and an impostor; and though few are arrived at this degree of folly, yet there are many who rely too much upon their own talents, eloquence, and labours, as if the salvation of the sheep depended necessarily thereon: in which respect they are always robbers, since they rob the grace of Christ of the glory of saving the sheep. God often puts such pastors to shame, by not opening the hearts of the people to receive their word: while he blesses those who are humble, in causing them to be heard with attention, and accompanying their preaching with an unction which converts and saves souls. Let every man know that in this respect his sufficiency and success are of the Lord.


John Gill's Bible Commentary

Ver. 8. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers , etc.] This must be understood with some restrictions, not of every individual person, nor of every individual prophet or shepherd; not of Moses, nor of the prophets of the Lord, nor of John the Baptist, who came immediately before Christ, was his harbinger, and prepared his way; but of those prophets who came, and were not sent of God, and so did not come in by the door; of the shepherds of Israel, who fed themselves, and not the flock, but lorded it over Gods heritage; and of such, as Theudas, and Judas the Galilean, who boasted that they were some great persons, but were only thieves and robbers; and particularly of the three shepherds cut off in one month, ( Zechariah 11:8), supposed to be the three sects among the Jews, and the leaders of them, the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes, especially the former; who were wolves in sheeps clothing, usurped a power that did not belong to them, robbed God of his authority, and glory; and, in a literal sense, plundered men of their substance, and devoured widows houses, as well as destroyed their souls. The phrase, before me, is wanting in seven of Bezas exemplars, and in several others; and in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Persic versions: but the sheep did not hear them ; the elect of God, some of which there were in all ages, though their number is comparatively few, did not attend to the false prophets, and false teachers, and idol shepherds; did not receive their doctrines, nor follow their practices; for it is not possible that these should be finally and totally deceived, or carried away with the error of the wicked.

Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 6-9 - Many who hear the word of
Christ, do not understand it, because the will not. But we shall find one scripture expounding another, and the blessed Spirit making known the blessed Jesus. Christ is the Door. An what greater security has the church of God than that the Lord Jesus i between it and all its enemies? He is a door open for passage an communication. Here are plain directions how to come into the fold; we must come in by Jesus Christ as the Door. By faith in him as the grea Mediator between God and man. Also, we have precious promises to thos that observe this direction. Christ has all that care of his church and every believer, which a good shepherd has of his flock; and he expects the church, and every believer, to wait on him, and to keep in his pasture.


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