Bible Verses About Sheep: Of the people of Christ

Then sayd Iesus vnto them againe, Verely, verely I say vnto you, I am that doore of the sheepe.

All, that euer came before me, are theeues and robbers: but the sheepe did not heare them.

I am that doore: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saued, and shall go in, and go out, and finde pasture.

The theefe commeth not, but for to steale, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might haue life, and haue it in abundance.

I am that good shepheard: that good shepheard giueth his life for his sheepe.

But an hireling, and hee which is not the shepheard, neither the sheepe are his owne, seeth the wolfe comming, and hee leaueth the sheepe, and fleeth, and the wolfe catcheth them, and scattreth the sheepe.

So the hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheepe.

I am that good shepheard, and knowe mine, and am knowen of mine.

As the Father knoweth me, so know I the Father: and I lay downe my life for my sheepe.

Other sheepe I haue also, which are not of this folde: them also must I bring, and they shall heare my voyce: and there shalbe one sheepefolde, and one shepheard.

Therefore doeth my Father loue me, because I lay downe my life, that I might take it againe.

No man taketh it from me, but I lay it downe of my selfe: I haue power to lay it downe, and haue power to take it againe: this commandement haue I receiued of my Father.

Then there was a dissension againe among the Iewes for these sayings,

And many of them sayd, He hath a deuill, and is mad: why heare ye him?

Other sayd, These are not the wordes of him that hath a deuill: can the deuill open the eyes of the blinde?

And it was at Hierusalem the feast of the Dedication, and it was winter.

And Iesus walked in the Temple, in Salomons porche.

Then came the Iewes round about him, and sayd vnto him, Howe long doest thou make vs dout? If thou be that Christ, tell vs plainely.

Iesus answered them, I tolde you, and ye beleeue not: the workes that I doe in my Fathers Name, they beare witnes of me.

But ye beleeue not: for ye are not of my sheepe, as I sayd vnto you.

He said to him againe the second time, Simon the sonne of Iona, louest thou me? He said vnto him, Yea Lord, thou knowest that I loue thee. He said vnto him, Feede my sheepe.

He said vnto him the third time, Simon the sonne of Iona, louest thou me? Peter was sorie because he said to him the third time, Louest thou me? and said vnto him, Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I loue thee. Iesus saide vnto him, Feede my sheepe.

The God of peace that brought againe from the dead our Lord Iesus, the great shepheard of the sheepe, through the blood of the euerlasting Couenant,

Feede the flocke of God, which dependeth vpon you, caring for it not by constraint, but willingly: not for filthy lucre, but of a ready minde: