John 10:8
Good News Translation
All others who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

New Revised Standard Version
All who came before me are thieves and bandits; but the sheep did not listen to them.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone who came before me was a thief or a robber, and the sheep did not listen to any of them.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and the sheep heard them not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and the sheep heard them not.

came.

John 10:1 Amen, amen, I say to you: He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold but climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a robber.

Isaiah 56:10-12 His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams. . . .

Ezekiel 22:25-28 There is a conspiracy of prophets in the midst thereof: like a lion that roareth and catcheth the prey, they have devoured souls, they have taken riches and hire, they have made many widows in the midst thereof. . . .

Ezekiel 34:2 Son of man, prophesy concerning the shepherds of Israel: prophesy, and say to the shepherds: Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel, that fed themselves: should not the flocks be fed by the shepherds?

Zephaniah 3:3 Her princes are in the midst of her as roaring lions: her judges are evening wolves, they left nothing for the morning.

Zechariah 11:4-9,16 Thus saith the Lord my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter, . . .

Acts 5:36 For before these days rose up Theodas, affirming himself to be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. Who was slain: and all that believed him were scattered and brought to nothing.

but.

John 10:5,27 But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they know not the voice of strangers. . . .

Context
Jesus the Good Shepherd
7Jesus therefore said to them again: Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and the sheep heard them not. 9I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved: and he shall go in and go out, and shall find pastures.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 23:1
Woe to the pastors, that destroy and tear the sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 34:2
Son of man, prophesy concerning the shepherds of Israel: prophesy, and say to the shepherds: Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel, that fed themselves: should not the flocks be fed by the shepherds?

John 10:1
Amen, amen, I say to you: He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold but climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a robber.

John 10:7
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