all who ever came before me have been thieves and robbers — but the sheep would not listen to them.
Truly, truly I tell you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs up somewhere else, he is a thief and a robber;
In days gone by Theudas started up, claiming to be a person of importance; a number of men, about four hundred of them, rallied to him, but he was slain, and all his followers were dispersed and wiped out.
My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me;
they will not follow a stranger, they will run from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."