“I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me –

This is why the Father loves me – because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and do so correctly, for that is what I am.

If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”

“Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’

Jesus replied, “If I have said something wrong, confirm what is wrong. But if I spoke correctly, why strike me?”

Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are the people who have not seen and yet have believed.”

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”

Then he brought them outside and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.

Then I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance

They know, because they have known me from time past, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.

When they had heard my case, they wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.

and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you can send me on my journey, wherever I go.

For if I make you sad, who would be left to make me glad but the one I caused to be sad?