<p>10:5 <i>A stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him. For they do not know the voice of strangers</i>- This is again an appeal to the intuitive sense within those who are of the Spirit; they instinctively discern those whose voice is not of God. The Lord puts it another way in 7:17, where see note there He explained that whoever has a heart for God's will can intuitively sense true and false teaching.</p><p>Remember that it was in full knowledge of the disciples' impending collapse of faith and feeling from Him, that the grace of Jesus confidently spoke of how His men would not follow &quot;a stranger... but will flee from him&quot;. But the disciples fled from their Lord in Gethsemane, as He knew they would (from Zech. 13:7, cp. Mt. 26:31) at the time He said those words. He knew that He must die for the sheep who would scatter each one to His own way (Is. 53:6). &quot;The time comes... when you shall be scattered, every man to his own&quot; (Jn. 16:32); and true enough, they all fled from Him (Mt. 26:56). But in Jn. 10 He spoke of His followers as calm, obedient sheep who would not scatter if they had a good shepherd (Jn. 10:12); even though He knew they would. The Lord's way of imputing such righteousness to His followers seems to be brought out in Jn. 10:4 cp. 6: &quot;The sheep follow Him: for they know (understand, appreciate) His voice... this parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things&nbsp;they were which he spake&quot;, i.e. they didn't know His voice. &nbsp;</p>