Then the servant girl who kept the door said to Peter, "You are not also one of this Man's disciples, [are you]?" He said, "I am not."

Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Therefore they said to him, "You are not also [one] of His disciples, [are you]?" Then he denied it and said, "I am not!"

But again he denied with an oath, "I do not know the Man!"

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

But the hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and is not concerned about the sheep.

Just as the Father knows Me, I also know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

For He is our God; and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.

Know that the Lord, He is God; He made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

Awake, O sword, against My shepherds, and against the man who is My citizen, says the Lord Almighty; strike the shepherds, and draw out the sheep: and I will bring My hand upon the little ones.

All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

And He told them this parable, saying:

And having found it, he puts [it] on his own shoulders, rejoicing.

I say to you that likewise [there] shall be more joy in heaven over one sinner repenting than over ninety-nine righteous who need no repentance.

for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."

Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit placed you [as] overseers, to shepherd the church of the Lord, and of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the everlasting covenant,

For you were like sheep going astray, but you have turned back now to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.