6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
6 Jesus used this figure of speech, but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them.
6 This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
6 Jesus told this simple story, but they had no idea what he was talking about.
6 Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.
6 Those who heard Jesus use this illustration didn't understand what he meant,
Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 10:6
Commentary on John 10:6-9
(Read John 10:6-9)
Many who hear the word of Christ, do not understand it, because they will not. But we shall find one scripture expounding another, and the blessed Spirit making known the blessed Jesus. Christ is the Door. And what greater security has the church of God than that the Lord Jesus is between it and all its enemies? He is a door open for passage and communication. Here are plain directions how to come into the fold; we must come in by Jesus Christ as the Door. By faith in him as the great Mediator between God and man. Also, we have precious promises to those that observe this direction. Christ has all that care of his church, and every believer, which a good shepherd has of his flock; and he expects the church, and every believer, to wait on him, and to keep in his pasture.