sleeping in the entrance of a summer shelter! So the image is not that of a door as a barrier for protection, but of a door as a passageway. Jesus also refines his earlier reference to the thief and robber (v. 1), saying, All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers (v. 8). This is a sweeping generalization. If it were not for references to Moses, the prophets and John the Baptist as witnesses to Jesus (for example, 1:17, 19–36; 5:39), then they would seem to be included in the category of
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