My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
What does John 10:29 mean?
All who have any thing to say to Christ, may find him in the temple. Christ would make us to believe; we make ourselves doubt.
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Keep this verse inside John 10:27-29 and alongside a few nearby related passages.
Commentary on John 10:29
Which gave them me - See John 6:37 . 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, further, that God will keep them, and will so control all other beings and things that they shall be safe. None is able - None has power to do it. In these two verses we are taught the following important truths: 1. that Christians are given by God the Father to Christ. 2.
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John 10 belongs to the middle movement of the book, especially the section often described as conflict and witness. John presents Jesus in contemplative, symbolic, and theological richness as the Word, Lamb, Light, Bread, Shepherd, Resurrection, Way, Vine, and Son. Read this chapter with the wider themes of incarnation, life, and light in view so the individual verses keep their proper weight.
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