Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
other sheep I have . . . not of this fold: them also I must bring--He means the perishing Gentiles, already His "sheep" in the love of His heart and the purpose of His grace to "bring them" in due time.
they shall hear my voice--This is not the language of mere foresight that they would believe, but the expression of a purpose to draw them to Himself by an inward and efficacious call, which would infallibly issue in their spontaneous accession to Him.
and there shall be one fold--rather "one flock" (for the word for "fold," as in the foregoing verses, is quite different).
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father--What claim to absolute equality with the Father could exceed this? (See on Matthew 11:27).
and I lay down my life for the sheep--How sublime this, immediately following the lofty claim of the preceding clause! It is the riches and the poverty of "the Word made flesh"--one glorious Person reaching at once up to the Throne and down even to the dust of death, "that we might live through Him." A candid interpretation of the words, "for the sheep," ought to go far to establish the special relation of the vicarious death of Christ to the Church.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Song of Solomon 1:4
Song of Solomon 6:9
Isaiah 5:17
Isaiah 56:8
Ezekiel 37:22
Revelation 22:17
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