![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (7) In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven't strayed away!ġ5,1 Ἦσαν δὲ αὐτῷ ἐγγίζοντες πάντες οἱ τελῶναι καὶ οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ ἀκούειν αὐτοῦ. (6) When he arrives, he will call together his friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.' (2) This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people-even eating with them! (3) So Jesus told them this story:Ĥ) "If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do? Won't he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it? (5) And when he has found it, he will joyfully carry it home on his shoulders. But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep.(1) Tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach. The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.” Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can he?” At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of Solomon. Why do you listen to Him?” Others were saying, “These are not the sayings of one demon-possessed. Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is insane. This commandment I received from My Father.” A division occurred again among the Jews because of these words. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again. I have other sheep, which are not of this fold I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice and they will become one flock with one shepherd. ![]() I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father and I lay down My life for the sheep. He flees because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep. He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. “I am the good shepherd the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. I am the door if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.” This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them. When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber. ![]()
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