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True and False Prophets
“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
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When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
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Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.
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“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
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He said to them, “If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?
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How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
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He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
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The Parable of the Wandering Sheep
“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.
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“What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?
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And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.
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The Sheep and the Goats
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.
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All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
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He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
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Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial
Then Jesus told them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written: “‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
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When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.
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Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial
“You will all fall away,” Jesus told them, “for it is written: “‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’
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The Parable of the Lost Sheep
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus.
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“Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?
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and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’
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“Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, ‘Come along now and sit down to eat’?
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In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.
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So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
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Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
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The Good Shepherd and His Sheep
“Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber.
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The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.
