9 Bible Verses about Shepherds, As Occupations

Hypocrites, does not each one of you, on the sabbath, loose his ox or his ass from the stable, and lead him away, and give him water?

When, therefore, they had taken breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter: Simon, son of Jonah, Do you love me more than these? He said to him: Yes, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Feed my lambs. He said to him again a second time: Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me? He said to him: Yes, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Be a shepherd to my sheep. He said to him a third time: Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do you love me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus said to him: Feed my sheep.

To him the door-keeper opens; and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. And when he puts his own sheep out, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him; for they know his voice.

To him the door-keeper opens; and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

and all nations shall be gathered before him; and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates his sheep from the goats.

And there were in the same country shepherds, living in the open field, and guarding their flock by night.

Verily, verily I say to you, he that goes not through the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief, and a robber.

What think you? If a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them go astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine, and go into the mountains, and seek for that which has gone astray?

What man of you that has a hundred sheep, and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the desert, and go after that which is lost, till he find it?