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In the Gospel of John, Jesus states "I am the good shepherd" in two verses, John 10:11 and 10:14. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.
Etching by Jan Luyken showing the triumphant return of the shepherd, from the Bowyer Bible. Parable of the Lost Sheep (right) in St Mary's Cathedral, Kilkenny, Ireland. The Parable of the Lost Sheep is one of the parables of Jesus. It appears in the Gospels of Matthew (Matthew 18:12–14) and Luke (Luke 15:3–7). It is about a man who leaves ...
In the King James Version of the Bible, the text reads: And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. The World English Bible translates the passage as: He said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men." For a collection of other versions see BibleHub Matthew 4:19.
Eastman Johnson's 1863 painting The Lord Is My Shepherd, depicting a devout man reading a Bible. For Christians, the image of God as a shepherd evokes connections not only with David but with Jesus, described as the "Good Shepherd" in the Gospel of John. The phrase "the valley of the shadow of death" is often taken as an allusion to the eternal ...
This late 15th-century Flemish miniature shows the annunciation to the shepherds. The annunciation to the shepherds is an episode in the Nativity of Jesus described in the Bible in Luke 2, in which angels tell a group of shepherds about the birth of Jesus. It is a common subject of Christian art and of Christmas carols.
Jesus' audience ("they", verse 6) did not understand what he was saying, and did not understand that he was applying the reference to thieves and robbers (verse 1) to themselves. [ 13 ] In its reference to the shepherd leading the flock out of the sheepfold, verse 3 has the only occurrence in the New Testament of the word ἐξάγει ( exagei ...
The World English Bible translates the passage as: You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah: for out of you shall come forth a governor, who shall shepherd my people, Israel." The Novum Testamentum Graece text is: Καὶ σὺ Βηθλεέμ, γῆ Ἰούδα,
The Shepherd of Hermas (Greek: Ποιμὴν τοῦ Ἑρμᾶ, romanized: Poimēn tou Herma; Latin: Pastor Hermae), sometimes just called The Shepherd, is a Christian literary work of the late first half of the second century, considered a valuable book by many Christians, and considered canonical scripture by some of the early Church fathers such as Irenaeus. [1]