John 10:8

Modern English Version

All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

Cross References

Jeremiah 23:1

Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture! says the Lord.

Ezekiel 34:2

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to those shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock?

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves who leave nothing until the morning.

Zechariah 11:16

For I am raising up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are perishing, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor feed those who are standing still. But he will eat the flesh of the fat and tear their hoofs in pieces.

John 10:1

“Truly, truly I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

John 10:27

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

John 10:5

Yet they will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him. For they do not know the voice of strangers.”

Acts 5:36

For in previous days Theudas rose up, boasting to be somebody, to whom a number of about four hundred men joined themselves. He was killed, and all who obeyed him were dispersed and came to nothing.