. Hurlbut's Life of Christ for young and old . rd lays down his own life for hissheep. The hired man, who is not a shepherd and doesnot own the sheep, when he sees a woK coming, runs awayand leaves the sheep. Then the woH tears them andscatters the flock. The hired man does this, just becausehe is only a hired man, and does not care about thesheep. I am the Good Shepherd; I know my sheep, and 297 l^fje (^oob ^fjcpfjerU my sheep know me—just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father—and I lay dowTi my Hfe for the sheep. I have other sheep, too, which do not belong to this fold; these also I
. Hurlbut's Life of Christ for young and old . rd lays down his own life for hissheep. The hired man, who is not a shepherd and doesnot own the sheep, when he sees a woK coming, runs awayand leaves the sheep. Then the woH tears them andscatters the flock. The hired man does this, just becausehe is only a hired man, and does not care about thesheep. I am the Good Shepherd; I know my sheep, and 297 l^fje (^oob ^fjcpfjerU my sheep know me—just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father—and I lay dowTi my Hfe for the sheep. I have other sheep, too, which do not belong to this fold; these also I must lead, and they will listen to my voice; and so itwill be one flockand one Shepherd.^On this ac-count my Fatherloves me becauseI lay down mylife, to take it upagain. No onetook it from me,but I laj^ it downof myself. Ihave power to layit do^vTi, and Ihave power tolake it up is the com-mand which myFather has givenme. I and myFather are , ashe spoke thesewords, the Jewsbegan again toJesus said to them: For which. The Good Shepherd pick up stones to throw at him I have done many good works of God of these works would you now stone me? The Jews answered, It is not for any good work that we would stone you, but for those dreadful words, words that would make you, a mere man, to be God! 298 Cjje (^oob ^jjepfjerli Jesus answered, Is it, not written in your law, Isaid, you are gods? If the law calls those gods to whomGod spoke his word—and Gods book must speak thetruth—then why is it such a terrible thing for one whomGod has set apart and sent into the world as his messenger,to say of himself I am Gods Son? If I am not doingthe work of my Father, do not believe me; but if I amdoing it, even though you will not believe me, believewhat my work shows. Then you will learn and under-stand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father. Once again they tried to seize him, but he escapedfrom their hands and went away from Jerusalem.
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