Sunday Scripture & Prayer Requests

FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

The Lord is my Good Shepherd, 19th century by German Artist
Bernard Plockhorst. [PD-US]

Jesus said:

"Amen, amen, I say to you,
whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate
but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber.
But whoever enters through the gate is theshepherd of the sheep.
The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheephear his voice,
as the shepherd calls his own sheep by name andleads them out.
When he has driven out all his own,
he walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him,
because they recognize his voice.
But they will not follow a stranger;
they will run away from him,
because they do not recognize the voice ofstrangers."
Although Jesus used this figure of speech,
the Pharisees did not realize what he was tryingto tell them.

So Jesus said again, "Amen, amen, I say toyou,
I am the gate for the sheep.
All who came before me are thieves and robbers,
but the sheep did not listen to them.
I am the gate.
Whoever enters through me will be saved,
and will come in and go out and find pasture.
A thief comes only to steal and slaughter anddestroy;
I came so that they might have life and have itmore abundantly."
John 10:1-10

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