Bible Verses About Sheep: Of the people of Christ

So Yeshua said to them again, “Yes, indeed! I tell you that I am the gate for the sheep.

All those who have come before me have been thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

I am the gate; if someone enters through me, he will be safe and will go in and out and find pasture.

The thief comes only in order to steal, kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, life in its fullest measure.

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

The hired hand, since he isn’t a shepherd and the sheep aren’t his own, sees the wolf coming, abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf drags them off and scatters them.

The hired worker behaves like this because that’s all he is, a hired worker; so it doesn’t matter to him what happens to the sheep.

I am the good shepherd; I know my own, and my own know me —

just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father — and I lay down my life on behalf of the sheep.

Also I have other sheep which are not from this pen; I need to bring them, and they will hear my voice; and there will be one flock, one shepherd.

“This is why the Father loves me: because I lay down my life — in order to take it up again!

No one takes it away from me; on the contrary, I lay it down of my own free will. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it up again. This is what my Father commanded me to do.”

Again there was a split among the Judeans because of what he said.

Many of them said, “He has a demon!” and “He’s meshugga! Why do you listen to him?”

Others said, “These are not the deeds of a man who is demonized — how can a demon open blind people’s eyes?”

Then came Hanukkah in Yerushalayim. It was winter,

and Yeshua was walking around inside the Temple area, in Shlomo’s Colonnade.

So the Judeans surrounded him and said to him, “How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us publicly!”

Yeshua answered them, “I have already told you, and you don’t trust me. The works I do in my Father’s name testify on my behalf,

but the reason you don’t trust is that you are not included among my sheep.

A second time he said to him, “Shim‘on Bar-Yochanan, do you love me?” He replied, “Yes, Lord, you know I’m your friend.” He said to him, “Shepherd my sheep.”

The third time he said to him, “Shim‘on Bar-Yochanan, are you my friend?” Shim‘on was hurt that he questioned him a third time: “Are you my friend?” So he replied, “Lord, you know everything! You know I’m your friend!” Yeshua said to him, “Feed my sheep!

The God of shalom brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Yeshua, by the blood of an eternal covenant.

shepherd the flock of God that is in your care, exercising oversight not out of constraint, but willingly, as God wants; and not out of a desire for dishonest gain, but with enthusiasm;