We see ourselves in this passage as wandering sheep, and we observe Jesus, the Servant of the Lord, as the shepherd who dies for His sheep. We are described in the first part of the verse as ...

I must make a confession, as a pastor I never appreciated the comparison of clergy to a good shepherd, it felt gross. People ...

Their only animal companions are the white egrets that perch on their soft shoulders ... to make friends with flocks of sheep ...

In John’s Gospel, Jesus talks in Chapter 10 a great deal about sheep and shepherds. A good shepherd knows the sheep and the sheep know their shepherd. In fact, there are four variations in this ...

The principal exception is the figure of a shepherd carrying a wounded sheep across his shoulders. With classical Greek sculptures of Hermes as a ready model, it was so common that even given the ...

In this fable, a shepherd boy keeps tricking the townspeople into thinking a wolf is attacking their flock of sheep by falsely crying, “Wolf!” When a wolf does finally come and the boy cries ...

The baas, bleats and bells were fading ever so slightly, and the shepherd’s trained ear ... for scattered sheep. In a flash, he was on a ridge, rifle resting on his shoulders, binoculars ...