We are safe and secure in the hands of Jesus.

In this passage we find people being referred to as sheep. Jesus sheep are the ones who ‘hear his voice’. He gives them eternal life, perseverance and security. Like a child holding onto a parent, so are all those who trust in Jesus … ’no one will snatch them out of his hand’.

Those of the Jews who rejected him in unbelief were not his sheep. They took offense at Jesus describing himself as ‘the son of God’ and called it blasphemy. Jesus response to them was to point to the works which he had done … miracles of healing which were the result of his oneness with the Father. They wanted to kill him but we are told that Jesus ‘escaped their grasp’.