The Good Shepherd

Saint John - Chapter 10

The Good Shepherd. J-J Tissot

[11] Ego sum pastor bonus. Bonus pastor animam suam dat pro ovibus suis.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.

[12] Mercenarius autem, et qui non est pastor, cujus non sunt oves propriae, videt lupum venientem, et dimittit oves, et fugit : et lupus rapit, et dispergit oves;
But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flieth: and the wolf catcheth, and scattereth the sheep:

[13] mercenarius autem fugit, quia mercenarius est, et non pertinet ad eum de ovibus.
And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep.

[14] Ego sum pastor bonus : et cognosco meas, et cognoscunt me meae.
I am the good shepherd; and I know mine, and mine know me.

[15] Sicut novit me Pater, et ego agnosco Patrem : et animam meam pono pro ovibus meis.
As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I lay down my life for my sheep.

[16] Et alias oves habeo, quae non sunt ex hoc ovili : et illas oportet me adducere, et vocem meam audient, et fiet unum ovile et unus pastor.
And other sheep I have, that 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.

[17] Propterea me diligit Pater : quia ego pono animam meam, ut iterum sumam eam.
Therefore doth the Father love me: because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

Totus tuus ego sum 

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam