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The hired hand runs away because he’s working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep.
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“I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me,
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just as my Father knows me and I know the Father. So I sacrifice my life for the sheep.
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I have other sheep, too, that are not in this sheepfold. I must bring them also. They will listen to my voice, and there will be one flock with one shepherd.
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“The Father loves me because I sacrifice my life so I may take it back again.
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No one can take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what my Father has commanded.”
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When he said these things, the people were again divided in their opinions about him.
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Some said, “He’s demon possessed and out of his mind. Why listen to a man like that?”
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Others said, “This doesn’t sound like a man possessed by a demon! Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
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It was now winter, and Jesus was in Jerusalem at the time of Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication.
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He was in the Temple, walking through the section known as Solomon’s Colonnade.