This is why I am going to send you prophets, wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and hunt from one town to another;

Wherever there is a dead body, the vultures will flock.

Then Jesus said to them, "You will all desert me tonight, for the Scriptures say, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

and they will ridicule him and spit on him and flog him and kill him; and three days after he will rise again."

There were some shepherds in that neighborhood keeping watch through the night over their flock in the open fields.

Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has chosen to give you the kingdom.

They said to him, "Where will this be, Master?" And he said to them, "Wherever there is a dead body the vultures will flock!"

and they will flog him and kill him, and on the third day he will rise again."

But the man who enters by the door is the shepherd of the flock.

When he gets his own flock all out, he goes in front of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

A hired man who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, when he sees a wolf coming, will leave the sheep and run away, and the wolf will carry them off and scatter the flock.

I have other sheep too that do not belong to this fold. I must lead them too, and they will obey my voice, and they will all become one flock, with one shepherd.

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the holy Spirit has made you guardians, and be shepherds of the church of God, which he got at the cost of his own life.

I know that after I am gone savage wolves will get in among you and will not spare the flock,

And I said, 'Lord, they know that I used to go through one synagogue after another, and to imprison and flog those who believed in you,

But when they had strapped him up, Paul said to the officer who was standing near, "Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen, and without giving him a trial?"

What soldier ever pays his expenses out of his own pay? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of the grapes? Who tends a flock and does not get any of the milk?

I appeal therefore to those who are elders among you; I am their brother-elder and a witness to what the Christ suffered, and I am to share in the glory that is to be revealed??2 be shepherds of the flock of God that is among you, not as though it were forced upon you but of your own free will, and not from base love of gain but freely,

and not as tyrannizing over those in your charge but proving models for the flock;