Good Shepherd
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“Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see:
the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed,
and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel
preached to them.”
Matthew 11:3-5
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So, for three years and a half, Jesus “went about doing good.”
Then the time came for His ministry on earth to be finished. With His
disciples He must go up to Jerusalem to be betrayed, condemned, and
crucified.
Thus were to be fulfilled His own words, “The Good Shepherd
giveth His life for the sheep.”
John 10:11
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“Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.... He
was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we
are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every
one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us
all.”
Isaiah 53:4-6
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