My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.
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 Father which gave them me,.... So the sheep came to be Christ's, and to be in his hand; the Father gave them to him, put them into his hands, and made them his care and charge: is greater than all; than all gods, than all beings, than all creatures, angels and men, and than all the enemies of his people; this must be allowed...
Verse 29. Which gave them me. See . Is greater. Is more powerful. Than all. Than all others--men, angels, devils. The word includes everything--everything that could attempt to pluck them away from God; in other words, it means that God is supreme. It implies, farther, that God will keep them, and will so control all other beings and things that they shall be safe. None is able.