John 10:7
Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
KJV
εἶπεν οὖν ὁ Ἰησοῦς· ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ θύρα τῶν προβάτων.
Greek NT
Dixit ergo eis iterum Jesus : Amen, amen dico vobis, quia ego sum ostium ovium.
Vulgate
Jesus therefore said unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
ASV
Jesus therefore said to them again: Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
θύρα
thura
noun · 39×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
πρόβατον
probaton
noun · 39×
ἀμήν
amen
hebrew_word · 124×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
trivial
SBLGNT: αὐτοῖς | Treg/RP: αὐτοῖς
- αὐτοῖς — SBLGNT
- αὐτοῖς — Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
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trivial
SBLGNT: ὅτι | NIV/RP: ὅτι
- ὅτι — SBLGNT
- ὅτι — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§754"The Church is, accordingly, a sheepfold, the sole and necessary gateway to which is Christ. It is also the flock of which God himself foretold that he would be the shepherd, and whose sheep, even though governed by human shepherds, are unfailingly nourished and led by Christ himself, the Good Shepherd and Prince of Shepherds, who gave his life for his sheep.146
§37Because Christ is so exalted, He alone by every right rules and governs the Church; and herein is yet another reason why He must be likened to a head. As the head is the "royal citadel" of the body [50] - to use the words of Ambrose - and all the members over whom it is placed for their good [51] are naturally guided by it as being endowed with superior powers, so the Divine Re…
The priests indeed are good, but the High Priest is better; to whom the holy of holies has been committed, and who alone has been trusted with the secrets of God. He is the door of the Father, by which enter in Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the prophets, and the apostles, and the Church. All these have for their object the attaining to the unity of God.
The rock and the gate are the Son of God. I said, "Sir, how is it that the rock is old, but the gate is new?" "Listen," said he, "and understand, thou ignorant man. The Son of God is older than all His creation, so that He was a counsellor with the Father in creating all things. Therefore also the rock is old." "But the gate, why is it new, Sir?" I asked. "Because," said he, "H…
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. Calvin expounds Christ's parable of the sheepfold. The good shepherd knows his sheep and is known by them. He has other sheep not of this fold — the Gentiles whom he will also bring in. No one takes his life from him; he lays it down of himself. "I and my Father are one" — Calvin shows this declares the un…
Cross-references
- Eph 2:18 — For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
- Eph 2:18 — For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
- Ezek 34:31 — And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.
- Heb 10:19 — Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
- Heb 10:20 — By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
- Isa 53:6 — All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- John 1:51 — And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
- John 10:1 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
- John 10:2 — But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
- John 10:9 — I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
- John 10:9 — I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
- John 14:6 — Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
- John 14:6 — Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
- Lev 1:3 — If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.
- Lev 17:4 — And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood;
- Luke 15:4 — What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
- Ps 79:13 — So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
- Ps 95:7 — For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
- Ps 100:3 — Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
- Rev 22:14 — Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
- Rom 5:2 — By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.