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Joh_10:14 f. After the description of the hireling, there now follows again that of the opposite,—the characterization of Himself as the good shepherd, first specifying His intimate acquaintance with His sheep, and then repeating His readiness to sacrifice Himself on their behalf. The latter point constitutes the refrain of the characterization (Joh_10:17-18), being here concretely expressed (it is different in Joh_10:11, where it was predicated of the good shepherd in abstracto).
καθὼς γινώσκει με , etc.] The nature and mode, the holy nature of that reciprocal acquaintanceship. Compare Joh_14:20, Joh_15:10, Joh_17:8; Joh_17:21. As between God and Christ, so also between Christ and His people, the reciprocal knowledge is a knowledge growing out of the most intimate fellowship of love and life,—that fellowship which directly involves γινώσκειν ; comp. on Mat_7:23.
τίθημι ] near and certain future. The clause κ . τ . ψ . is not dependent on καθώς .