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Jesus – the good shepherd

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Jesus says in John 10:11, “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”

Ezekiel wrote in Ezekiel 34:11: “Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out. 12 … I will rescue them …. 15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord God. 16 I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak.” God is the good shepherd.

150 years earlier Micah 5:2-5 wrote: “But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, … from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days. … 4 he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the Lord. … 5 And he shall be their peace.”

Likewise, Isaiah 40 wrote: “10 Behold, the Lord God comes with might, and his arm rules for him; … 11 He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.”

By calling himself the good shepherd in John 10, Jesus is saying that God can be experienced through him.

In John 10:31 “the Jews picked up stones again to stone him …. 33 because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

In Psalm 23, David reveals to us what this shepherd is like.

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