The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

Go instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

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.

So he answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables.

All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

For you were going astray like sheep but now you have turned back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were bewildered and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

“I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

As Jesus came ashore he saw the large crowd and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he taught them many things.

Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’

When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

What do you think? If someone owns a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray?

Then Jesus said to them, “This night you will all fall away because of me, for it is written: ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

“Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it?

So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.