The image of Jesus as the good shepherd is one that resonates with many people, invoking thoughts of divine care, protection and guidance. In artistic depictions, the good shepherd is typically a ...

Sunday, April 30, is the Fourth Sunday of Easter. Mass readings: Acts 2:14a, 36-41; Psalm 23: 1-3a, 3b4, 5, 6; 1 Peter 2:20b-25; John 10:1-10. Today’s Gospel speaks of our Shepherd, Jesus, and what he ...

The Fourth Sunday in the Easter season is Good Shepherd Sunday, with the Gospel reading taken from part of Jesus Good Shepherd discourse in John 10. While most of us in 21st-century America have ...

Jesus said, “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep” (John 10:11). The word “good” in the Greek language refers “to goodness in the sense of capability.” In other ...

In John chapter 10, Jesus said, “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep” (vs. 11). Jesus uses the imagery of a shepherd to portray Himself as being the kind of ...

The Good Shepherd by Letbetter explains, “the artist, Weinert, is saying that the shepherd saves the lamb by kneeling, a posture of humility, ignoring the thorny brush that had entangled the lamb.” ...

"Jesus said, ‘I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep'" (John 10:11). This verse comes from the Gospel of John, one of the four gospel narratives in the New Testament.

There is this idea in the Bible that goes back centuries and millennia, that God is like a shepherd. When God formed a community to be his representatives to the world, he chose, not city dwellers or ...

The Gospel of the Fourth Sunday of Easter (John 10:11-18) always focuses on the Good Shepherd. The reading is actually found in John’s Gospel, sandwiched between two miracles we read about during Lent ...

In his parables, Jesus of Nazareth referred to himself as a good shepherd and to humankind as sheep. In so doing, he did not flatter. To be sure, sheep are mild domesticated animals — but notoriously ...