John 10:13 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

[The reason] he runs away is because he is a hired hand and does not [really] care about the sheep.

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The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

Now the hireling flees because he merely serves for wages and is not himself concerned about the sheep [cares nothing for them].

he fleeth because he is a hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

He’s only a hired hand and the sheep don’t matter to him.

And the hired hand flees, because he is a hired hand and there is no concern for the sheep within him.

And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep.