John 10:8 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

All who came before I did were thieves or robbers. However, the sheep didn't respond to them.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

All who came before me are thieves and outlaws: but the sheep did not give ear to them.

DBY:

All whoever came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not hear them.

ERV:

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

WEY:

All who have come before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep would not listen to them.

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

all, as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them;

John 10:8 Cross References

XREF:

Jeremiah 23:1 "Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture!" declares the LORD.

Ezekiel 34:2 "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to those shepherds, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Woe, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock?

John 10:1 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

10:8 {2} All that {c} ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
(2) It does not matter how many false teachers there have been, neither how old they have been.
(c) These terms must be applied to the matter he speaks of. And therefore when he calls himself the door, he calls all those thieves and robbers who take upon themselves this name of door, which none of the prophets can do, for they showed the sheep that Christ was the door.

PNT:

10:8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers. Abbott holds that the idea is All who came, not entering through the door, but claiming to be before me, having the precedence, independent of me, are thieves and robbers. This seems to harmonize with the context, and is probably the Savior's meaning. He included the Jewish rabbis, the Greek philosophers, the pretended prophets, and the Infallible Pope. These all refuse to bow to his authority.
But the sheep did not hear them. The true sheep.

WES:

10:8 Whosoever are come - Independently of me, assuming any part of my character, pretending, like your elders and rabbis, to a power over the consciences of men, attempting to make laws in the Church, and to teach their own traditions as the way of salvation: all those prophets and expounders of God's word, that enter not by the door of the sheepfold, but run before I have sent them by my Spirit. Our Lord seems in particular to speak of those that had undertaken this office since he began his ministry, are thieves - Stealing temporal profit to themselves, and robbers - Plundering and murdering the sheep.

MHC:

10:6-9 Many who hear the word of Christ, do not understand it, because they will not. But we shall find one scripture expounding another, and the blessed Spirit making known the blessed Jesus. Christ is the Door. And what greater security has the church of God than that the Lord Jesus is between it and all its enemies? He is a door open for passage and 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 great Mediator between God and man. Also, we have precious promises to those 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.

CONC:

Didn't Ear Heed Listen Outlaws Robbers Sheep Thieves

Ear Hear Heed Outlaws Robbers Sheep Thieves

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