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20-508: The Good Shepherd is an image in the Christian Bible. Good Shepherd may also refer to: Good Shepherd In the Gospel of John , Jesus states "I am the good shepherd" in two verses, John 10:11 and 10:14 . I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves

40-634: A pastor in Reichenbach/ Lahr . During this time he was appointed to be the archbishop's school inspector and intervened in the disputes between church and state in the Kulturkampf . From 1879 to 1882 he was pastor in Schuttertal , and in 1882 Archbishop Johann Baptist Orbin appointed him to his cathedral chapter and entrusted him with the schools and religious education in the Archdiocese of Freiburg . In

60-529: A popular Christian literary work of the 2nd century. However, by about the 5th century, the figure more often took on the appearance of the conventional depiction of Christ, as it had developed by this time, and was given a halo and rich robes, as on the apse mosaic in the church of Santi Cosma e Damiano in Rome, or at Ravenna (right). Images of the Good Shepherd often include a sheep on his shoulders, as in

80-508: Is impossible to say whether the image was originally created with the intention of having a Christian significance. The image continued to be used in the centuries after Christianity was legalized in 313 . Initially, it was probably not understood as a portrait of Jesus, but a symbol like others used in Early Christian art, and in some cases may also have represented the Shepherd of Hermas ,

100-596: Is weak, and that which is fat and strong I will preserve, and I will feed them in judgment.' (Ezech. 34:11)" He also connects Jesus with Psalm 23:1, "The Lord rules me, and I shall want nothing; He has set me in a place of pasture." and Isaiah 53:7 "He shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter." The image of the Good Shepherd is also used in the Mandaean Book of John . Chapters 11–12 of the Mandaean Book of John are about "a shepherd who loves his sheep" who leads them on to

120-547: The World of Light . In ancient Greek cult, kriophoros or criophorus (Κριοφόρος), the "ram-bearer" is a figure that commemorates the solemn sacrifice of a ram . It becomes an epithet of Hermes : Hermes Kriophoros . In two-dimensional art, Hermes Kriophoros transformed into the Christ carrying a lamb and walking among his sheep: "Thus we find philosophers holding scrolls or a Hermes Kriophoros which can be turned into Christ giving

140-781: The Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father This passage is one of several sections of John's Gospel which generate division among Jews. Jesus Christ is also compared to a shepherd in Matthew 2:6 , Matthew 9:36 , Matthew 25:32 , Matthew 26:31 , Mark 6:34 , Mark 14:27 , John 10:2 , Hebrews 13:20 , 1 Peter 2:25 , 1 Peter 5:4 , and Revelation 7:17 . Several authors such as Barbara Reid, Arland Hultgren or Donald Griggs comment that "parables are noticeably absent from

160-675: The Gospel of John". According to the Catholic Encyclopedia article on Parables: "There are no parables in St. John's Gospel" and according to the Encyclopædia Britannica article on Gospel of St. John: "Here Jesus' teaching contains no parables and but three allegories, the Synoptists present it as parabolic through and through." The image of the Good Shepherd is the most common of

180-626: The Law ( Traditio Legis ) and the Good Shepherd respectively". The Good Shepherd is a common motif from the Catacombs of Rome (Gardner, 10, fig 54) and in sarcophagus reliefs, where Christian and pagan symbolism are often combined, making secure identifications difficult. Friedrich Justus Knecht Friedrich Justus Heinrich Knecht (7 October 1839 – 31 January 1921) was a German Catholic theologian, writer and bishop in Freiburg, Germany . Justus Knecht

200-691: The Lukan version of the Parable of the Lost Sheep . According to German theologian Friedrich Justus Knecht a number of doctrines are put forward in this parable. 1) The Sacrifice and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ. As Jesus "distinctly foretells His Sacrifice and Death in the words: 'I lay down My life for My sheep.'" 2) The one, united, catholic Church. As Jesus "foretold that the Gentiles also would believe in Him, and that all

220-626: The Saviour does not withdraw His love from this wanderer. Even as, during His sojourn on earth, He laboured for the conversion of sinners, so does He now go after the sinner. He calls him by His grace, by His priests, and invites him to return once more to the fold, by means of the Sacrament of Penance ." Roger Baxter in his Meditations sees Jesus, the good shepherd, as a fulfillment of a number of Old Testament passages, writing: "This divine shepherd will visit you to-day, to feed you, and to defend you from

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240-413: The faithful, both Jews and Gentiles , would be united in one fold, under one Shepherd." 3) The Love of Jesus for sinners. "The touching parable of the lost sheep shows our Lord’s compassionate love for individual sinners. The lost sheep signifies a sinner who, obeying his own evil inclinations and the allurements of sin, has separated himself from Jesus, and is shut out from the number of the faithful. But

260-498: The same year Knecht published his Practical Commentary on Biblical History , which remained in use in German-speaking regions for an entire generation. This was followed in the same year by the publication of a Brief Biblical History for Catholic elementary schools. This textbook was extremely popular in its day and has been translated into 20 different languages. His Practical Commentary on Biblical History , translated in 1925,

280-701: The seminary in Sankt Peter and was ordained a priest there on 5 August 1862 by Archbishop Hermann von Vicari. From 1862 to 1864 Knecht worked as a vicar in Durmersheim , Rastatt and Freiburg. He was also a tutor at the archbishop's seminary for boys and a religion teacher in a school in Freiburg. From 1869 to 1871 he was an administrator in Gengenbach , in 1871 a parish administrator in Seelbach , and finally from 1871 to 1877

300-457: The sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own; even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. Therefore

320-483: The symbolic representations of Christ found in early Christian art in the Catacombs of Rome , before Christian imagery could be made explicit. The form of the image showing a young man carrying a lamb around his neck was directly borrowed from the much older pagan kriophoros (see below) and in the case of portable statuettes like the most famous one now in the Pio Cristiano Museum , Vatican City (right), it

340-428: The wolves of hell. There is no part of a shepherd's duty which He does not perform most willingly. Hence He says by His prophet, 'Behold, I Myself will seek My sheep: and will visit them as the shepherd visits his flock: I will feed them in the most fruitful pastures; I will seek that which was lost, and that which was driven away I will bring again: and I will bind up that which was broken; and I will strengthen that which

360-572: Was born in Bruchsal , the fourth of seven children of Heinrich Ludwig Knecht, a master tailor, and Catharina Schmer. He attended elementary school from 1843 to 1849 and high school from 1849 to 1856. Knecht was baptized a Protestant but converted to the Catholic faith in 1855 at his mother's request, along with his father and three siblings. After finishing high school in 1858, he studied Catholic theology in Freiburg im Breisgau (1858–1861). In 1861 he entered

380-560: Was considered a possible successor, but was removed from the list of candidates by the Baden state government. In 1896, he was appointed Dean of the Cathedral of Freiburg and thus, as vicar, head of the cathedral chapter. After the death of Archbishop Johannes Christian Roos in 1896, he served as regent of the Archdiocese for two years until 1898. Knecht was awarded the title of "Papal Assistant to

400-491: Was one of the foundations for the Catholic mission in China. In 1907, his Biblical History for Schools and Homes was published. In 1893 he received from Pope Leo XIII the honorary title of "Papal secret chamberlain" and was appointed titular bishop of Neve and auxiliary bishop in Freiburg on 4 February 1894. He was ordained a bishop on 4 April of the same year. Following the death of Archbishop Johann Baptist Orbin in 1886, Knecht

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