Bible Verses About Sheep

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.

My sheep listen to my voice, I recognize them, they follow me,

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!

Did you ever hear of a soldier paying his own expenses? or of a farmer planting a vineyard without eating its grapes? Who shepherds a flock without drinking some of the milk?

They were stoned, sawed in two, murdered by the sword; they went about clothed in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted, mistreated,

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;