Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
All that ever came before me—the false prophets; not as claiming the prerogatives of Messiah, but as perverters of the people from the way of life, all pointing to Him [OLSHAUSEN].
the sheep did not hear them—the instinct of their divinely taught hearts preserving them from seducers, and attaching them to the heaven-sent prophets, of whom it is said that "the Spirit of Christ was in them" (I Peter 1:11).
I am the door of the sheep—that is, the way in to the fold, with all blessed privileges, both for shepherds and sheep (compare John 14:6; Ephesians 2:18).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 10:8:
John 10:27-30
Romans 5:19
1 John 4:4
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