I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
I am the door,.... Of the sheep, as before, see Joh 10:7. The Ethiopic version reads, "I am the true door of the sheep"; which is repeated for further confirmation, and for the sake of introducing what follows: by me if any man enter in; into the sheepfold, the church, he shall be saved; not that being in a church, and having submitted to ordinances...
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. (3) Only Christ is the true Pastor, and those only are the true Church who acknowledge him to properly be their only Pastor: opposite to him are thieves who do not feed the sheep, but kill them: and hirelings also, who...
The Pharisees claimed to be the church's true pastors and treated Christ as an intruder with no commission from them. But His doubled amen, Amen, amen, stamps this teaching with absolute weight: whoever does not enter by the gate but climbs another way is a thief and robber, bent on mischief and damage to the flock.
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Commenting on John 10:1-18