Matthew Poole and continuators on John 10:14

14 I am the good Shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine .

I am no Hireling, the sheep are mine own, I have a true love and affection for them, which obligeth me to a just and true care of them; I know them by Name, (as was said before) by a particular distinct knowledge; or I love them, and have tender bowels for them; and as I know them, so I am mutually known, and owned, and acknowledged by them; they have heard my voice, and discerned betwixt my voice, and the voice of such as are strangers, refusing to follow them; but following me, going before them. Thus our Saviour in the same Parable giveth us both notes to know a true, and good Shepherd, and particularly to know that himself was the true, good, and most excellent Shepherd: and also Notes, by which we might know who they are that are the true Sheep of Christ.

Marginal references: 2 Tim. 2.19.