After healing the blind man, Jesus gives the Jews a parable. A shepherd's flock knows the shepherd, does not know the robbers and thieves that came to rob. The shepherd enters peacefully through the gate while the robbers do not. The sheep respond to the shepherd, but not the robbers and thieves.
On a literal level, this is another straightforward and obvious story in similar fashion to the one about the farmer. Here though, Jesus explains the parable to the crowd because they did not understand what he was talking about. He explained he, Jesus, was the shepherd and that his flock knows his voice. He also explains about how wolves try to scatter the flock and there are other sheep, but there is only one flock.
At this, the Jews are divided. Some think Jesus is demon-possessed while others find credibility in that he healed the blind.
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