April 9, 2008
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John 10:26-27
SHEEP BELIEVE, OTHERS DON’T
John 10:26  But ye believe [present active] not, because ye are not of my sheep [neuter], as I said unto you.
because
Sheep believe in
the present tense
Emphatic “not”
YE
John 10:24  Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him,
How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
Emphatic “not”
We have the parsing of John 10:26 and we have identified each word with the words in our translation. The word “ye” identifies to whom he is addressing. He is address those that are around about him in verse 24. These were Jews that Jesus said they could not believe in the present tense. The reason they could not believe in the present tense was because they were not Sheep. The word “Jews” is masculine in gender which I believe is a reference to those who were his own, masculine, in John 1:11.