John 10:8

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Ezekiel 34:2

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them: To the shepherds, thus says the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been pasturing themselves! Should not shepherds pasture the flock?

John 10:1

“Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber.

Jeremiah 23:1

Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the flock of my pasture—oracle of the Lord.

Acts 5:36

Some time ago, Theudas appeared, claiming to be someone important, and about four hundred men joined him, but he was killed, and all those who were loyal to him were disbanded and came to nothing.

John 10:27

My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

John 10:5

But they will not follow a stranger; they will run away from him, because they do not recognize the voice of strangers.”

Zechariah 11:16

For I am raising up a shepherd in the land who will take no note of those that disappear, nor seek the strays, nor heal the injured, nor feed the exhausted; but he will eat the flesh of the fat ones and tear off their hoofs!

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officials within it are roaring lions; Its judges are desert wolves that have no bones to gnaw by morning.