'Sheep' in the Bible

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were bewildered and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Go instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

"I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

He said to them, "Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?

How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."

So he answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

What do you think? If someone owns a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray?

All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

Then Jesus said to them, "This night you will all fall away because of me, for it is written: 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

As Jesus came ashore he saw the large crowd and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he taught them many things.

Then Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'

"Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it?

Returning home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, telling them, 'Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost.'

"Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, 'Come at once and sit down for a meal'?

He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables.

So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

So Jesus said to them again, "I tell you the solemn truth, I am the door for the sheep.

All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.

Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away.

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father -- and I lay down my life for the sheep.

I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.

But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

Jesus said a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He replied, "Yes, Lord, you know I love you." Jesus told him, "Shepherd my sheep."

Jesus said a third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was distressed that Jesus asked him a third time, "Do you love me?" and said, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you." Jesus replied, "Feed my sheep.

Now the passage of scripture the man was reading was this: "He was led like a sheep to slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

As it is written, "For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

Now may the God of peace who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ,

For you were going astray like sheep but now you have turned back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

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