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8 All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.  
9 aI am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.  
10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
11 a“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.  
12 But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and aleaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.  
13 The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd; and aI know My sheep, and bam known by My own.  
15 aAs the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; band I lay down My life for the sheep.  
16 And aother sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; band there will be one flock and one shepherd.  
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John 10:10

But that he may steal, and kill, and destroy (ei mh ina kleyh kai qush kai apolesh). Literally, "except that" (ei mh) common without (Matthew 12:4) and with verb (Galatians 1:7), "if not" (literally), followed here by final ina and three aorist active subjunctives as sometimes by otan (Mark 9:9) or oti (II Corinthians 12:13). Note the order of the verbs. Stealing is the purpose of the thief, but he will kill and destroy if necessary just like the modern bandit or gangster.

I came that they may have life (egw hlqon ina zwhn exwsin). In sharp contrast (egw) as the good shepherd with the thieves and robbers of verse John 10:1 came Jesus. Note present active subjunctive (exwsin), "that they (people) may keep on having life (eternal, he means)" as he shows in John 10:28. He is "the life" (John 14:6).

And may have it abundantly (kai perisson exwsin). Repetition of exwsin (may keep on having) abundance (perisson, neuter singular of perissov). Xenophon (Anab. VII. vi. 31) uses perisson exein, "to have a surplus," true to the meaning of overflow from peri (around) seen in Paul's picture of the overplus (upereperisseusen in Romans 5:20) of grace. Abundance of life and all that sustains life, Jesus gives.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 10:10:

John 10:1
1 John 5:11

 

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