^11 (A)“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.

¹⁴ I am the good shepherd; and ^(A)I know My sheep, and ^(B)am known by My own. ^15 (C)As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; ^(D)and I lay down My life for the sheep.

^13 (A)Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

The Lord the Shepherd of His People

A Psalm of David.

¹⁷ for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne ^(A)will shepherd them and lead them to ^[a]living fountains of waters. ^(B)And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

^24 (A)who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, ^(B)that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—^(C)by whose ^[a]stripes you were healed. ²⁵ For ^(D)you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned ^(E)to the Shepherd and ^[b]Overseer of your souls.

The Outworking of Love

^16 (A)By this we know love, ^(B)because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

¹⁷ Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Surely ^(A)I have sinned, and I have done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father’s house.”