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

Now Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. Therefore they said to him, Are you not also one of His disciples? He denied it and said, I am not.

And 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.

The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.

As the Father knows Me, even so I 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. Today, if you will hear His voice:

Know that Jehovah, He is God; it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the Man who is My Associate, says Jehovah of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered. And I will turn My hand on the little ones.

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

So He spoke this parable to them, saying:

And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in Heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons 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, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church 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, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

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