John 10:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

All who came before me are thieves and bandits, 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

Mortal, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: To the shepherds—thus says the Lord God: Woe, you shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?

Zephaniah 3:3

The officials within it are roaring lions; its judges are evening wolves that leave nothing until the morning.

Zechariah 11:16

For I am now raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for the perishing, or seek the wandering, or heal the maimed, or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.

John 10:1

“Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit.

John 10:27

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

John 10:5

They will not follow a stranger, but they will run from him because they do not know the voice of strangers.”

Acts 5:36

For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him, but he was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and disappeared.