"The Stealers"

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The Context: To understand a passage it always helps to know the context of that passage. In John 9 Jesus is embroiled in a controversy with the religious leaders of His day. He healed a man born blind and the Pharisees threw a fit because Jesus broke one of their rules; He did it on the Sabbath (9:14). They ended up throwing the formerly blind man out of the temple. “Jesus heard they had cast him out; and when Jesus found him…” (9:35) It is against the backdrop of dealing with these false shepherds who were in fact thieves and robbers that Jesus took the time to teach on the fact that there are false shepherds and there are true shepherds; Himself being The Good Shepherd. These thieves and robbers I am calling stealers because that’s what they do. They steal the sheep from the Good Shepherd. Israel was the sheep God had delivered from Egyptian bondage and had kept them for hundreds of years. All because they were His sheep. He loved these sheep.

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