John 10:4
New International Version
When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.

New Living Translation
After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice.

English Standard Version
When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

Berean Standard Bible
When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.

Berean Literal Bible
When he has brought out all the own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

King James Bible
And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

New King James Version
And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

New American Standard Bible
When he puts all his own sheep outside, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

NASB 1995
“When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

NASB 1977
“When he puts forth all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

Legacy Standard Bible
When he brings all his own out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

Amplified Bible
When he has brought all his own sheep outside, he walks on ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice and recognize his call.

Christian Standard Bible
When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they know his voice.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

American Standard Version
When he hath put forth all his own, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And when he has brought forth his flock, he goes before it and his own sheep go after him, because they know his voice.

Contemporary English Version
When he has led out all of his sheep, he walks in front of them, and they follow, because they know his voice.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he hath let out his own sheep, he goeth before them: and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

English Revised Version
When he hath put forth all his own, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
After he has brought out all his sheep, he walks ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

Good News Translation
When he has brought them out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

International Standard Version
When he has driven out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

Literal Standard Version
and when he may put forth his own sheep, he goes on before them, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;

Majority Standard Bible
When he has brought out his own sheep, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.

New American Bible
When he has driven out all his own, he walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they recognize his voice.

NET Bible
When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

New Revised Standard Version
When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

New Heart English Bible
Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

Webster's Bible Translation
And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

Weymouth New Testament
When he has brought out his own sheep--all of them--he walks at the head of them; and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

World English Bible
Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

Young's Literal Translation
and when his own sheep he may put forth, before them he goeth on, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Jesus the Good Shepherd
3The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen for his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. 5But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will flee from him because they do not recognize his voice.”…

Cross References
John 10:3
The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen for his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

John 10:5
But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will flee from him because they do not recognize his voice."

John 10:16
I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.

John 10:27
My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.


Treasury of Scripture

And when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

he goeth.

John 12:26
If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.

John 13:15
For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.

John 14:2,3
In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you…

for.

John 10:8,16
All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them…

John 3:29
He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

John 18:37
Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

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John 10
1. Jesus is the door, and the good shepherd.
19. Diverse opinions of him.
23. He proves by his works that he is Jesus the Son of God;
31. escapes the Jews;
39. and goes again beyond Jordan, where many believe on him.














(4) And when he putteth forth his own sheep.--The majority of the better MSS. add the word "all." The tense is past. We should read, therefore, when he has put forth all his own sheep. The addition is important as marking the care of the shepherd to count his flock and see that none is missing. The word "put forth" is stronger than "lead out," in the previous verse, and represents the details of the action as it took place in the sheepfold. The shepherd would call each sheep by name, and when it answered to its name would drag it outside the fold. Though it knew its shepherd, it would be unwilling to separate itself from the whole flock. One by one, then, he calls his sheep, and places them outside the fold.

He goeth before them, and the sheep follow him.--This is one of the incidents in the management of an Eastern flock, which strikes all who see it for the first time, and is abundantly illustrated in books of Eastern travel. The details are here given with minute accuracy. When the last sheep has been brought out the shepherd places himself at their head, and the flock together follow him.

For they know his voice.--The word is stronger than the one in John 10:3, "and the sheep hear his voice." It expresses the familiar knowledge which the little flock has of the voice of their own shepherd who leads them day by day.

Verse 4. - In like manner, our Lord continues to describe what every true shepherd of men has done and ever will do: When he hath put forth all his own, and not another's, drawn them by the music of his voice, or constrained them by the sweet violence of his love, or even compelled them to go forth from a fold in which they may find security, but not pasture; and when he has marshaled them into obedience and into thankful trust by the strength of his sympathy and knowledge of their need, he goeth before them. He is their leader and example; he shows them in his own life the kind of provision made for them; he shares with them the perils of the wilderness, and first of all is prepared to grapple with their fierce foes, "He drinks of the brook in the way." The highest meaning, the only complete interpretation, of this passage is found when Christ himself is the Shepherd, who does summon from the old enclosure "all his own," all who have entered into living harmony with himself. And the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. Nothing is here said of "lost sheep" or of "goats;" these are all the "ideal sheep" of the flock, individuals who recognize the voice of the true Leader, and discriminate their own shepherd from all others, whether pretenders to their affections or destroyers of their lives - wolves or butchers, thieves or robbers. Should we persist in interpreting the apologue as it stands, a question arises about the πρόβατα that are not the shepherd's" own." Some have answered it by supposing that the latter are the chief of his own flock, who will bring the rest after them. The truth is not obscurely hinted of that election to highest privileges and duties, which does not declare that the rest are not sheep at all.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
When
Ὅταν (Hotan)
Conjunction
Strong's 3752: When, whenever. From hote and an; whenever; also causatively inasmuch as.

he has brought out
ἐκβάλῃ (ekbalē)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1544: To throw (cast, put) out; I banish; I bring forth, produce. From ek and ballo; to eject.

all
πάντα (panta)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

[his]
τὰ (ta)
Article - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

own,
ἴδια (idia)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 2398: Pertaining to self, i.e. One's own; by implication, private or separate.

he goes on
πορεύεται (poreuetai)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4198: To travel, journey, go, die.

ahead of
ἔμπροσθεν (emprosthen)
Preposition
Strong's 1715: From en and pros; in front of (literally or figuratively) or time).

them,
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Neuter 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

[his]
τὰ (ta)
Article - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

sheep
πρόβατα (probata)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 4263: A sheep. Probably neuter of a presumed derivative of probaino; something that walks forward, i.e., a sheep.

follow
ἀκολουθεῖ (akolouthei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 190: To accompany, attend, follow. Properly, to be in the same way with, i.e. To accompany.

him
αὐτῷ (autō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

because
ὅτι (hoti)
Conjunction
Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

they know
οἴδασιν (oidasin)
Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1492: To know, remember, appreciate.

his
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

voice.
φωνὴν (phōnēn)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5456: Probably akin to phaino through the idea of disclosure; a tone; by implication, an address, saying or language.


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