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Although Jesus used this figure of speech,[a] they did not realize what he was trying to tell them.

[b]So Jesus said again, “Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the gate for the sheep. [c]All who came [before me] are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:6 Figure of speech: John uses a different word for illustrative speech than the “parable” of the synoptics, but the idea is similar.
  2. 10:7–10 In Jn 10:7–8, the figure is of a gate for the shepherd to come to the sheep; in Jn 10:9–10, the figure is of a gate for the sheep to come in and go out.
  3. 10:8 [Before me]: these words are omitted in many good early manuscripts and versions.