Jesus the Good Shepherd

The discourse of Christ that we shall now study was in all likelihood occasioned by the reactions of Israel's leaders to the miracle of healing performed upon the eyes of the man born blind. The Pharisees, compelled to concede that a miracle had been wrought, hated Christ all the more and vent their spite upon the blind man who had been healed by casting him forth out of the synagogue. So were they disposed toward Him and such was the treatment they afforded the sheep entrusted to their care....