John 10

"Meine Schafe hören meine Stimme, und ich kenne sie und sie folgen mir." (27)

After some Jewish people asked him, if he is the Christ or not, he gave them this answer. Acctually this answer is a clear "yes" because of the parable he said before, the works he had done till then and everything word he has said. But it seems that some people just do not want to, can not, are not willing to listen to him and follow him, like the sheeps are fallowing the shepherd according to his voice. But in contrary we can see how they hated him and wanted to destroy him for the words he is saying (19,31,39). They are at that time indeed not a sheep of Jesus. Because they do not listen to him, do not trust him and do not let themselves led by him.
On the other side the author of John illustrate the other side, the sheep of Jesus. He reported about the many people who believed in Jesus and came to him (41+42). Those are the one who will receive all the grace and protection Jesus has promised and the sheep are the one how will enter into eternal life.

In this small chapterwe can see how nice and meaningful the bible is written: In the first part it writes about the parable of the Good Shepherd, than Jesus esplains the meaning and purpose of telling this parable. Than in the second half it reports about a real situation where some people had problems with the identity of Jesus (which is not different today). With them we can see an example of, not to be a sheep of Jesus = not to believe in him= not to listen to his voice.