John Chapter 10 Bible Study

Jesus was talking to the people about the shepherd for the sheep. When the gatekeeper opens the gate, the shepherd should call the sheep by name. When the shepherd sends the sheep out, he walks ahead with them, and the sheep should follow him. The sheep won’t follow anyone else, instead, they will run away from that person because they don’t know his voice. Jesus is the gate for the sheep. Those sheep who come in to Him will find new pasture and be saved. The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. Jesus has come for life in all its fullness. Jesus is the Good Shepherd for the sheep. When a hired man doesn’t own the sheep and a wolf comes near, he leaves the sheep there and runs off for not caring about the sheep. Jesus knows the sheep, and they follow Him in the same way that Jesus knows His Father and that He will be willing to die for the sheep. There are other sheep that were not there in His sheep pen. Jesus will bring the sheep. The sheep will listen to His voice as one flock. The Father loves Him  because He’s willing to give His life up in order for Him to take it back. Nobody will take His life away. He will give it up of His own will. There was a lot of questioning about Jesus because of His words. Some people assumed that Jesus had a demon inside of Him. 

During the winter, the Festival of the Dedication of the Temple was in Jerusalem. Jesus was going to Solomon’s Porch in the Temple when the people gathered around Him asked if He was really the Messiah. Jesus already told the people about His deeds by the authority of His Father, but they wouldn’t believe, for they were not his sheep. Jesus will give His sheep eternal life and that they shall not die, and no one shall take that life away from Him. His Father has given Jesus greater things than everything, and no one will take them away from the Father’s care. The Father and Him are one. People had stones to throw at Him. Jesus told the people that He had done many good deeds in His presence with them, for He asked, “Which one of these would you stone me?” The people said, “We do not want to stone You because of Your good deeds, but You are trying to make Yourself God.” God has said to the people that they are gods, as it had said in the Scriptures. The Scripture was true. The Father chose and sent Jesus into the world. But if Jesus does those things, then people would believe His deeds in order to know that the Father is in Him and Him in the Father. The people tried to capture Jesus, but He slipped out of their hands. Jesus went back again to the Jordan River where John had been baptizing, and He stayed there. Many people believed in Him because everything that John had said about the man was true. 

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Questions

1. How did the Jews feel about Jesus' works?
2. Why did the Jews throw stones at Jesus' teachings?
3. What is the good shepherd when anyone enters through him?
4. What is the Festival of Dedication?