Jesus ascended back to heaven 40 days after his resurrection. We know this because Luke tells us ( Acts 1:3 ). It’s a very ...

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In John chapter 10, Jesus said, “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep” (vs. 11). Jesus uses the imagery of a shepherd to portray Himself as being the kind ...

And the Psalmist writes, “Save your people and bless your inheritance; be their shepherd and carry them for ever.” Therefore, if you asked any of Jesus’s contemporaries who was the good ...

Notably, figures like Jesus and the apostles are virtually absent from the Shepherd. Instead, readers find a story about an otherwise unknown enslaved man named Hermas experiencing visions and ...

We have the thief, the hired hand, and the good shepherd. John talks elsewhere about the thief. Jesus denounces the Temple as a “den of thieves” when he drives out the moneychangers at the ...