The surrounding context of the allegorical story of the Good Shepherd (John 9:35-41 and John 10:22-30) shows that the people around Jesus realized that he was asserting that he was God. Biblical scholar Donald Guthrie maintains that the reaction of the Jews (picking up stones to stone him) shows that they understood that Jesus was asserting his own divinity. (Cf. Leviticus chapter 24, verse 16: "He who blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him...." WEB)