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Join Dr. Craig Keener, a foremost expert in biblical backgrounds, as he provides principles for interpretation along with excellent examples. See the parable of the Prodigal Son through the eyes of a Pharisee, learn the dangers involved in using allegory rather than analogy, and appreciate the contrast between Emperor Augustus and Jesus in the story of the first Christmas. Dr. Keener draws from...

for you now. In the context, the thief is somebody who climbs up some other way, who doesn’t come through the door. He speaks of all that came before Him as thieves and robbers. The thieves, the robbers, and the wolves are predators who come to destroy the sheep, and in this context, it’s not referring to the devil; in this context it’s referring to false teachers that come to lead us away from Jesus. If you read the context further, John 9 and 10—there’s actually no chapter breaks in the original
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