ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

 Tu‘apulelulu Sepitema 9, 2021

I am the door

Ko au pē ko e matapā

Sione 10 (John 10)

(v. 7-9) So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.

(v. 7-9) Ko ia na‘e toe folofola ‘a Sīsū, Ko au ē, ko au ē, ‘oku ou tala atu, Ko au ko e matapā ‘o e fanga sipi. Ko kinautolu kotoa pē na‘e ha‘u mu‘omu‘a ‘iate au, ko e kau kaiha‘a kinautolu mo fakamālohi: ka na‘e ‘ikai tokanga kiate kinautolu ‘e he fanga sipi. Ko au pē ko e matapā: ka kuo hū ha taha ‘iate au ‘e fakamo‘ui ia, pea te ne hū atu, pea te ne hū mai, ‘o ma‘u me‘akai.

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Continuing, He gave a more detailed picture of that coming order. There was to be a fold, with a door. There was to be a flock, with a shepherd. Entrance to the fold would be by the door. The flock would know and follow the shepherd. Here John declared, "They understood not what things they were that He spake unto them"; and that "therefore" of Jesus shows that what followed in His teaching resulted from their failure to understand. This fuller statement centers on two principal claims of our Lord, "I am the Door," "I am the good Shepherd." Entrance on the new order would be through Him. Of the fold He is the Door. Sustenance and government within the order would be through Him. Of the flock He would be the Shepherd. Such teaching again caused division.

While walking in the porch of Solomon, the Jews asked for some more definite pronouncement. In reply, Jesus referred them to what He had already told them, and then restated the facts of the new order, insisting on the relation between Himself and His Father. All this teaching aroused those opposed to further activity, but their rage was restrained, and they were not able to arrest Him.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible

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.