My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
27. My sheep hear my voice. He proves by an argument drawn from contraries, that they are not sheep, because they do not obey the Gospel. For God effectually calls all whom he has elected, so that the sheep of Christ are proved by their faith.
We have here another rencounter between Christ and the Jews in the temple, in which it is hard to say which is more strange, the gracious words that came out of his mouth or the spiteful ones that came out of theirs. I.
Commenting on John 10:22-38
My sheep hear my voice,.... The voice of Christ in his Gospel, both externally and internally; See Gill on Joh 10:4, See Gill on Joh 10:16; and since therefore these Jews did not, it was a plain case they were not of his sheep: and I know them; See Gill on Joh 10:14; but Christ knew not these as the elect of God, or as...