I, Paul, send this greeting with my own hand.

Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept ¹  my teaching. ² 

“I am the good shepherd. I ¹  know my own ²  and my own know me –

Everything ¹  I have belongs to you, ²  and everything you have belongs to me, ³  and I have been glorified by them. ⁴ 

So Jesus replied, ¹  “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me. ² 

But if you do not believe what Moses ¹  wrote, how will you believe my words?”

But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.

“If you love me, you will obey ¹  my commandments. ² 

so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name!

This is my defense to those who examine me.

For they refreshed my spirit and yours. So then, recognize people like this.

See what big letters I make as I write to you with my own hand!

I have sent ¹  him (who is my very heart) ²  back to you.

I can do nothing on my own initiative. ¹  Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, ²  because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me. ³ 

In the same way, he also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, every time you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

For where two or three are assembled in my name, I am there among them.”

but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give. It is for those for whom it has been prepared.” ¹ 

Then ¹  the father ²  said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and everything that belongs to me is yours.

Your father Abraham was overjoyed ¹  to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.” ² 

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.