In the Gospel of John 10:1-6, Jesus speaks about how people come to follow him: they recognize his voice as that of their shepherd. A stranger, he says, they simply will not follow, because they do not recognize his voice. When John says, then, that "they did not understand what he was saying to them", are we not to understand that they, his listeners, are not his sheep? The irony is thick.
This brings up the question of discerning truth, though, for the only criteria for verifying Jesus' truthfulness - at least, the only one that Jesus gives - is that you either hear it or you don't. There's no "demonstration" that the shepherd (or even one of the sheep themselves) are able to, or supposed to, give that will prove "objectively" that, yes indeed, this is our shepherd. His sheep hear his voice.
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