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There is one other instance of the word "follow" before John 10, and it is this one...

John8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

This is a discipleship passage which is meant to be taken figuratively. Meaning, those after Christ follow him only in Spirit, not in a physical ministry with Jesus. This can be better understood having read John 9, where it shows that Jesus is the light of the world AS LONG as he is in the world.

John9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
John9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

And we can point to John 13 for this...

John13:1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

So we can conclude that all the applicable uses of the word "follow" before John 10 are about physically walking with Christ on earth, only exception is the discipleship passage of John 8:12.

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There is one other instance of the word "follow" before John 10, and it is this one...

John8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

This is a discipleship passage which is meant to be taken figuratively. Meaning, those after Christ follow him only in Spirit, not in a physical ministry with Jesus. This can be better understood having read John 9, where it shows that Jesus is the light of the world AS LONG as he is in the world.

John9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
John9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

And we can point to John 13 for this...

John13:1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

So we can conclude that all the applicable uses of the word "follow" before John 10 are about physically walking with Christ on earth, only exception is the discipleship passage of John 8:12.

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