He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 10:12 in context
John 10:9–15
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I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and will find pasture.
10
The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
11
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
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He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.
13
The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care for the sheep.
14
I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;
15
even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
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