Then Jesus, because he knew they were going to come and seize him by force to make him king, withdrew again up the mountainside alone.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.

The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.