In the mornings the

shepherd would call

his sheep out and

lead them to

pasture.

They will not follow

a stranger because

they do not know their voice.

There are times when a shepherd may endan-

ger himself to protect his flock. Thieves come

to kill and destroy, but the Good Shepherd

came that "they might have life, and that they

might have it more abundantly." He would lay

down His life for the sheep.

But a hireling flees when the wolf comes, "and

the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep."