How to Understand Your Bible- Step 2: Interpretation, Part 1

In John 10 Jesus said some important things. He talked about being a shepherd, which doesn’t sound that important, but hang on. He said a shepherd can go through the gate to the sheep pen and lead his sheep out with his voice. He then said he is the shepherd and we are the sheep. Like I said, interesting stuff. But is it helpful?

In many ways Jesus might as well have been talking in Greek. Well, he was. He might as well have been talking about nuclear physics; maybe that is better. His words really don’t make sense to us because we aren’t shepherds and most of our buddies aren’t either. To understand his metaphor,