My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
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Gill's Exposition
My Father which gave them me,.... So the sheep came to be Christ's, and to be in his hand; the Father gave them to him, put them into his hands, and made them his care and charge:
is greater than…
Barnes' Notes
Which gave them me - See Joh 6:37. Is greater - Is more powerful. Than all - Than all others - men, angels, devils. The word includes everything - everything that could attempt to pluck them away from…
Adam Clarke
My Father - is greater than all - More powerful than all the united energies of men and demons. He who loves God must be happy; and he who fears him need fear nothing on this side eternity.
We have here another rencounter between Christ and the Jews in the temple, in which it is hard to say which is more strange, the gracious words that came out of his mouth or the spiteful ones that…
Cambridge Bible
which gave them Better, which hath given them. Comp. Joh 17:6; Joh 17:24. This enforces the previous assertion. -To snatch them out of My hand, he must snatch them out of My Father's hand; and My…
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