'Hired' in the Bible

"They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' "He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.'

"When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.

Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.

But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!

I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."'

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.

The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.