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Juan 10

1 El buen pastor y sus ovejas
2 Pero el que entra por la puerta es el pastor de las ovejas.
3 El portero le abre la puerta, y las ovejas reconocen la voz del pastor y se le acercan. Él llama a cada una de sus ovejas por su nombre y las lleva fuera del redil.
4 Una vez reunido su propio rebaño, camina delante de las ovejas, y ellas lo siguen porque conocen su voz.
5 Nunca seguirán a un desconocido; al contrario, huirán de él porque no conocen su voz.
6 Los que oyeron a Jesús usar este ejemplo no entendieron lo que quiso decir,
7 entonces les dio la explicación:
8 Todos los que vinieron antes que yo
eran ladrones y bandidos, pero las verdaderas ovejas no los escucharon.
9 Yo soy la puerta; los que entren a través de mí serán salvos.
Entrarán y saldrán libremente y encontrarán buenos pastos.
10 El propósito del ladrón es robar y matar y destruir; mi propósito es darles una vida plena y abundante.
11 »Yo soy el buen pastor. El buen pastor da su vida en sacrificio por las ovejas.
12 El que trabaja a sueldo sale corriendo cuando ve que se acerca un lobo; abandona las ovejas, porque no son suyas y él no es su pastor. Entonces el lobo ataca el rebaño y lo dispersa.
13 El cuidador contratado sale corriendo porque trabaja sólo por el dinero y, en realidad, no le importan las ovejas.
14 »Yo soy el buen pastor; conozco a mis ovejas, y ellas me conocen a mí,
15 como también mi Padre me conoce a mí, y yo conozco al Padre. Así que sacrifico mi vida por las ovejas.
16 Además, tengo otras ovejas que no están en este redil, también las debo traer. Ellas escucharán mi voz, y habrá un solo rebaño con un solo pastor.
17 »El Padre me ama, porque sacrifico mi vida para poder tomarla de nuevo.
18 Nadie puede quitarme la vida sino que yo la entrego voluntariamente en sacrificio. Pues tengo la autoridad para entregarla cuando quiera y también para volver a tomarla. Esto es lo que ordenó mi Padre».
19 Al oírlo decir esas cosas, la gente
volvió a dividirse en cuanto a su opinión sobre Jesús.
20 Algunos decían: «Está loco y endemoniado, ¿para qué escuchar a un hombre así?».
21 Otros decían: «¡No suena como alguien poseído por un demonio! ¿Acaso un demonio puede abrir los ojos de los ciegos?».
22 Jesús afirma ser el Hijo de Dios
Ya era invierno, y Jesús estaba en Jerusalén durante el tiempo de Januká, el Festival de la Dedicación.
23 Se encontraba en el templo, caminando por la parte conocida como el pórtico de Salomón.
24 Algunas personas lo rodearon y le preguntaron:
—¿Hasta cuándo nos tendrás en suspenso? Si tú eres el Mesías, dínoslo sin rodeos.
25 Jesús les contestó:
26 pero ustedes no me creen porque no son mis ovejas.
27 Mis ovejas escuchan mi voz; yo las conozco, y ellas me siguen.
28 Les doy vida eterna, y nunca perecerán. Nadie puede quitármelas,
29 porque mi Padre me las ha dado, y él es más poderoso que todos.
Nadie puede quitarlas de la mano del Padre.
30 El Padre y yo somos uno.
31 Una vez más, las personas tomaron piedras para matarlo.
32 Jesús dijo:
33 —No te apedreamos por ninguna buena acción, ¡sino por blasfemia! —contestaron—. Tú, un hombre común y corriente, afirmas ser Dios.
34 Jesús respondió:
35 Y ustedes bien saben que las Escrituras no pueden ser modificadas. Así que, si a las personas que recibieron el mensaje de Dios se les llamó “dioses”,
36 ¿por qué ustedes me acusan de blasfemar cuando digo: “Soy el Hijo de Dios”? Después de todo, el Padre me separó y me envió al mundo.
37 No me crean a menos que lleve a cabo las obras de mi Padre;
38 pero si hago su trabajo, entonces crean en las obras milagrosas que he hecho aunque no me crean a mí. Entonces sabrán y entenderán que el Padre está en mí y yo estoy en el Padre.
39 Una vez más trataron de arrestarlo, pero él se escapó y los dejó.
40 Se fue al otro lado del río Jordán, cerca del lugar donde Juan bautizaba al principio, y se quedó un tiempo allí.
41 Y muchos lo siguieron. «Juan no hacía señales milagrosas —se comentaban unos a otros—, pero todo lo que dijo acerca de este hombre resultó ser cierto».
42 Y muchos de los que estaban allí creyeron en Jesús.

Juan 10 Commentary

Chapter 10

The parable of the good shepherd. (1-5) Christ the Door. (6-9) Christ the good Shepherd. (10-18) The Jews' opinion concerning Jesus. (19-21) His discourse at the feast of dedication. (22-30) The Jews attempt to stone Jesus. (31-38) He departs from Jerusalem. (39-42)

Verses 1-5 Here is a parable or similitude, taken from the customs of the East, in the management of sheep. Men, as creatures depending on their Creator, are called the sheep of his pasture. The church of God in the world is as a sheep-fold, exposed to deceivers and persecutors. The great Shepherd of the sheep knows all that are his, guards them by his providence, guides them by his Spirit and word, and goes before them, as the Eastern shepherds went before their sheep, to set them in the way of his steps. Ministers must serve the sheep in their spiritual concerns. The Spirit of Christ will set before them an open door. The sheep of Christ will observe their Shepherd, and be cautious and shy of strangers, who would draw them from faith in him to fancies about him.

Verses 6-9 Many who hear the word of Christ, do not understand it, because they will not. But we shall find one scripture expounding another, and the blessed Spirit making known the blessed Jesus. Christ is the Door. And what greater security has the church of God than that the Lord Jesus is between it and all its enemies? He is a door open for passage and communication. Here are plain directions how to come into the fold; we must come in by Jesus Christ as the Door. By faith in him as the great Mediator between God and man. Also, we have precious promises to those that observe this direction. Christ has all that care of his church, and every believer, which a good shepherd has of his flock; and he expects the church, and every believer, to wait on him, and to keep in his pasture.

Verses 10-18 Christ is a good Shepherd; many who were not thieves, yet were careless in their duty, and by their neglect the flock was much hurt. Bad principles are the root of bad practices. The Lord Jesus knows whom he has chosen, and is sure of them; they also know whom they have trusted, and are sure of Him. See here the grace of Christ; since none could demand his life of him, he laid it down of himself for our redemption. He offered himself to be the Saviour; Lo, I come. And the necessity of our case calling for it, he offered himself for the Sacrifice. He was both the offerer and the offering, so that his laying down his life was his offering up himself. From hence it is plain, that he died in the place and stead of men; to obtain their being set free from the punishment of sin, to obtain the pardon of their sin; and that his death should obtain that pardon. Our Lord laid not his life down for his doctrine, but for his sheep.

Verses 19-21 Satan ruins many, by putting them out of conceit with the word and ordinances. Men would not be laughed out of their necessary food, yet suffer themselves thus to be laughed out of what is far more necessary. If our zeal and earnestness in the cause of Christ, especially in the blessed work of bringing his sheep into his fold, bring upon us evil names, let us not heed it, but remember our Master was thus reproached before us.

Verses 22-30 All who have any thing to say to Christ, may find him in the temple. Christ would make us to believe; we make ourselves doubt. The Jews understood his meaning, but could not form his words into a full charge against him. He described the gracious disposition and happy state of his sheep; they heard and believed his word, followed him as his faithful disciples, and none of them should perish; for the Son and the Father were one. Thus he was able to defend his sheep against all their enemies, which proves that he claimed Divine power and perfection equally with the Father.

Verses 31-38 Christ's works of power and mercy proclaim him to be over all, God blessed for evermore, that all may know and believe He is in the Father, and the Father in Him. Whom the Father sends, he sanctifies. The holy God will reward, and therefore will employ, none but such as he makes holy. The Father was in the Son, so that by Divine power he wrought his miracles; the Son was so in the Father, that he knew the whole of His mind. This we cannot by searching find out to perfection, but we may know and believe these declarations of Christ.

Verses 39-42 No weapon formed against our Lord Jesus shall prosper. He escaped, not because he was afraid to suffer, but because his hour was not come. And He who knew how to deliver himself, knows how to deliver the godly our of their temptations, and to make a way for them to escape. Persecutors may drive Christ and his gospel our of their own city or country, but they cannot drive him or it out of the world. When we know Christ by faith in our hearts, we find all that the Scripture saith of him is true.

Juan 10 Commentaries

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