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Gospel Reading - I lay down my life

¹¹“I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. ¹²A hired man will run when he sees a wolf coming and will leave the sheep, for they aren’t his and he isn’t their shepherd. And so the wolf leaps on them and scatters the flock. ¹³The hired man runs because he is hired and has no real concern for the sheep.

¹⁴“I am the Good Shepherd and know my own sheep, and they know me, ¹⁵just as my Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶I have other sheep, too, in another fold. I must bring them also, and they will heed my voice; and there will be one flock with one Shepherd.

¹⁷“The Father loves me because I lay down my life that I may have it back again. ¹⁸No one can kill me without my consent — I lay down my life voluntarily. For I have the right and power to lay it down when I want to and also the right and power to take it again. For the Father has given me this right.”