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|I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
|I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
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|I am the good shepherd. I know my own sheep, and they know me,
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|As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
|As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
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|in the same way that my Father knows me, and I know my Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.
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|In the Greek, verses 12, 13, 14 and 15 are one continuous thought, so this last clause is intended as a contrast to what was said of the hired worker two verses up. The hired worker abandons the sheep to preserve his own life where Jesus lays His life down for the sheep.
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|And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
|And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
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|I have other sheep who are not from this sheep yard. I must also lead them, they shall hear my voice, there shall be one sheep yard, and one shepherd.
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|The Mormons have long claimed that this was a reference to them. Taken in context with the discussions Jesus has been having with the Jews, the most likely reference is simply to the gentiles. Even in Acts, the Gentile Christians were treated as "outsiders" by many Jewish Christians, and many Jewish Christians never got over this. Many either overtly or subtly considered the two groups as being two different "churches," (recall how Peter withdrew from the Gentiles when Jewish Christians showed up, and how angry that made Paul). At one point, the elders in Jerusalem held a big council meeting to see what parts of the law they were going to require the Gentile believers to obey in order to be considered real Christians, again, treating them as a separate body of believers from the Jewish Christians. Historically, Gentile believers tended to make more of a separation with other believers based on doctrinal differences (denominations - Catholic versus Protestant; Calvinist versus Arminian; Charismatic versus traditional; etc.), where Jewish believers tended to lump all denominations together, and make more of a separation based on race (Jewish versus Gentile). Jesus, on the other hand, says all believers are part of the same flock.
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