Who are the other sheep of John 10:16? The dispute turns on a word neither side had stopped to define. Scripture uses fold of a place — something built, entered, left or become — and never once of a people. Define the word and the sentence reads itself: Israel's own scattered, brought back to one fold under one shepherd.

The sheep and shepherd metaphor belongs to Israel's prophetic kingdom program, not the Body of Christ. Paul never calls believers sheep. This article shows the difference between Israel's earthly fold under the Shepherd-King and the Body's heavenly identity as living members of Christ.