Then said the girl that kept the door unto Peter, Are not you also one of this man's disciples? He said, I am not.

And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore unto him, Are not you also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am not.

And again he denied it with an oath, I do not know the man.

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.

The hireling flees, because he is a hireling, and cares not for the sheep.

As the Father knows me, even so know I 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 you that the LORD he is God: it is he that 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 that is close to me, says the LORD of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats:

And he spoke this parable unto them, saying,

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

I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repents, more than over ninety and nine just persons, who need no repentance.

For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

For you were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.