JESUS said, "...I am the good shepherd:
the good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep.
The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and the sheep do not belong to him, abandons the sheep as soon as he sees a wolf coming, and runs away, and then the wolf attacks and scatters the sheep;
he runs away because he is only a hired man
and has no concern for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd;
I know my own and my own know me..."
John 10:11-14
