12 The hired hand, who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf approaching and abandons the sheep and runs away—and the wolf seizes them and scatters them[a] 13 because he is a hired hand and he is not concerned[b] about the sheep.

14 “I am the good shepherd, and I know my own, and my own know me,

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Footnotes

  1. John 10:12 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. John 10:13 Literally “it is not a concern to him”