To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.

It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch.

And Peter stood without at the door. Then the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, came out and spoke to the porter, and led in Peter.

And then the maidservant porter says to Peter, Art thou not one of the disciples of this man? He says, I am not.