John 10:27

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.

King James Version (1611)
My sheepe heare my voyce, and I know them, and they follow me.

King James Version
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

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

New American Standard Bible
"My sheep listen to My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;

New Century Version
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

Amplified Bible
"The sheep that are My own hear My voice and listen to Me; I know them, and they follow Me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;

Legacy Standard Bible
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;

Berean Standard Bible
My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.

Contemporary English Version
My sheep know my voice, and I know them. They follow me,

Complete Jewish Bible
My sheep listen to my voice, I recognize them, they follow me,

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

Easy-to-Read Version
My sheep listen to my voice. I know them, and they follow me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
My sheepe heare my voyce, and I knowe them, and they follow me,

George Lamsa Translation
My own sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;

Good News Translation
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

Lexham English Bible
My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

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

American Standard Version
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

Bible in Basic English
My sheep give ear to my voice, and I have knowledge of them, and they come after me:

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

International Standard Version
My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me.John 10:4,14;">[xr]

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

Murdock Translation
My sheep hear my voice: and I know them: and they go after me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
My sheepe heare my voyce, and I knowe them, and they folowe me:

English Revised Version
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

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

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

Weymouth's New Testament
My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
My scheep heren my vois, and Y knowe hem, and thei suen me.

Update Bible Version
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

Webster's Bible Translation
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

New English Translation
My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

New King James Version
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

New Living Translation
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

New Life Bible
My sheep hear My voice and I know them. They follow Me.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
My sheep, unto my voice, hearken, - and, I, know, them, and they follow me, -

Douay-Rheims Bible
My sheep hear my voice. And I know them: and they follow me.

Revised Standard Version
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
my shepe heare my voyce and I knowe them and they folowe me

Young's Literal Translation
according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My shepe heare my voyce, & I knowe the, & they folowe me.

Mace New Testament (1729)
my sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.

Simplified Cowboy Version
My cattle know me, and I know them. They go where I lead them.

Contextual Overview

²²They were celebrating Hanukkah just then in Jerusalem. It was winter. Jesus was strolling in the Temple across Solomon's Porch. The Jews, circling him, said, "How long are you going to keep us guessing? If you're the Messiah, tell us straight out." ²⁵Jesus answered, "I told you, but you don't believe. Everything I have done has been authorized by my Father, actions that speak louder than words. You don't believe because you're not my sheep. My sheep recognize my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them real and eternal life. They are protected from the Destroyer for good. No one can steal them from out of my hand. The Father who put them under my care is so much greater than the Destroyer and Thief. No one could ever get them away from him. I and the Father are one heart and mind." ³¹Again the Jews picked up rocks to throw at him. Jesus said, "I have made a present to you from the Father of a great many good actions. For which of these acts do you stone me?" ³³ The Jews said, "We're not stoning you for anything good you did, but for what you said—this blasphemy of calling yourself God." ³⁴Jesus said, "I'm only quoting your inspired Scriptures, where God said, ‘I tell you—you are gods.' If God called your ancestors ‘gods'—and Scripture doesn't lie—why do you yell, ‘Blasphemer! Blasphemer!' at the unique One the Father consecrated and sent into the world, just because I said, ‘I am the Son of God'? If I don't do the things my Father does, well and good; don't believe me. But if I am doing them, put aside for a moment what you hear me say about myself and just take the evidence of the actions that are right before your eyes. Then perhaps things will come together for you, and you'll see that not only are we doing the same thing, we are the same—Father and Son. He is in me; I am in him."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sheep: John 10:4, John 10:8, John 10:16, John 5:25, John 8:43, Matthew 17:5, Acts 3:23, Hebrews 3:7, Revelation 3:20

and I: John 10:3, John 10:14, Matthew 7:23, Matthew 25:12, Luke 13:27, 1 Corinthians 8:3, Galatians 4:9, 2 Timothy 2:19

and they: John 10:4, John 8:12, John 12:26, John 21:22, 1 Kings 18:21, Matthew 16:24, Mark 8:34, Mark 10:21, Luke 9:23, Revelation 14:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 7:16 - the Numbers 23:20 - I cannot Deuteronomy 2:7 - he knoweth 1 Samuel 25:29 - with the Lord Psalms 1:6 - knoweth Psalms 23:1 - my Psalms 31:7 - known Psalms 31:23 - for the Psalms 34:22 - none Psalms 37:24 - for Psalms 55:22 - suffer Psalms 86:2 - Preserve Psalms 92:15 - To show Psalms 94:14 - For Psalms 145:20 - preserveth Proverbs 1:33 - whoso Proverbs 8:20 - lead Ecclesiastes 9:1 - that the Song of Solomon 2:8 - voice Isaiah 27:3 - do keep Isaiah 51:6 - my salvation Isaiah 55:3 - hear Isaiah 55:4 - a leader Isaiah 66:22 - so shall Jeremiah 23:4 - neither Jeremiah 24:5 - I acknowledge Jeremiah 31:10 - and keep Jeremiah 32:40 - that I Micah 2:13 - their Micah 5:4 - stand Micah 7:14 - Feed Nahum 1:7 - and he Zechariah 9:16 - shall save Malachi 3:17 - they shall Matthew 13:23 - good Matthew 16:18 - shall not Matthew 18:14 - it is Matthew 19:21 - come Matthew 25:32 - as Matthew 25:46 - the righteous Mark 4:24 - hear Mark 13:22 - if it Luke 6:47 - heareth Luke 10:42 - which John 3:19 - because John 5:24 - and shall not John 6:39 - I should John 6:45 - Every John 6:65 - that no John 8:47 - General John 10:26 - because John 17:6 - the men John 17:12 - I kept John 18:37 - Every John 21:16 - my sheep Acts 13:48 - and as 1 Corinthians 2:14 - receiveth Ephesians 4:21 - heard Titus 1:1 - faith 1 John 4:6 - he that knoweth 3 John 1:11 - follow

Cross-References

Genesis 10:20
These are the descendants of Ham by family, language, country, and nation.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My sheep hear my voice,.... The voice of Christ in his Gospel, both externally and internally; :-,

:-; and since therefore these Jews did not, it was a plain case they were not of his sheep:

and I know them; :-; but Christ knew not these as the elect of God, or as the Father's gift to him, and therefore they could not be his sheep:

and they follow me; both in the exercise of grace, and in the discharge of duty, and whithersoever he the good shepherd leads them; :-,

:-. But now, whereas these Jews did not follow Christ, but turned their backs on him, and rejected him, it was notorious that they were none of his sheep; but both happy and safe are those persons, that are the sheep of Christ, as appears from what is next said of them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My sheep - My church, my people, those who have the true spirit of my followers. The name is given to his people because it was an illustration which would be well understood in a country abounding in flocks. There is also a striking resemblance, which he proceeds to state, between them.

Hear my voice - See John 10:3-4. Applied to Christians, it means that they hear and obey his commandments.

I know them - See John 10:14.They follow me - A flock follows its shepherd to pastures and streams, John 10:3. Christians not only obey Christ, but they imitate him; they go where his Spirit and providence lead them; they yield themselves to his guidance, and seek to be led by him. When Jesus was upon earth many of his disciples followed or attended him from place to place. Hence, Christians are called his followers, and in Revelation 14:4 they are described as “they that follow the Lamb.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 27. My sheep hear my voice — But ye will not hear:- my sheep follow me; but ye will neither follow nor acknowledge me. Any person who reads without prejudice may easily see, that our Lord does not at all insinuate that these persons could not believe, because God had made it impossible to them; but simply because they did not hear and follow Christ, which the whole of our blessed Lord's discourse proves that they might have done. The sheep of Christ are not those who are included in any eternal decree, to the exclusion of others from the yearnings of the bowels of eternal mercy; but they are those who hear, believe in, follow, and obey the Saviour of the world.