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In this context is included the 7th "I am" Statement by Jesus. He changes the metaphor slightly compared to other verses . While before He was the Shepard now He is the Gate. Before He had led the sheep out of the pen, here He is the entrance to the pen that leads to the proper pasture. This verse echoes Jesus' words in 14:6 that He is the only way to the Father. His point is that He serves as the sole means to approach the Father and partake of God's promised salvation. As some Near Eastern shepherds slept in the gateway to guard the sheep, Jesus pictures himself here as the gate.

In John 10:10 the word "kill" in Greek is the word "thuo". In Strong's Concordance this is defined as: to kill, to slaughter, to sacrifice, to do sacrifice. The Word is saying in context of the paragraph that