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

¹³ [The reason] he runs away is because he is a hired hand and does not [really] care about the sheep.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Now the hireling flees because he merely serves for wages and is not himself concerned about the sheep [cares nothing for them].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ he fleeth because he is a hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

Common English Bible

¹³ He’s only a hired hand and the sheep don’t matter to him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ And the hired hand flees, because he is a hired hand and there is no concern for the sheep within him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep.

John 10:13 Cross References

John 10:12

The person who is [only] a hired hand, and not the shepherd, [and] who does not own the sheep [himself], sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away. So, the wolf attacks the flock and scatters [the sheep].

John 10:14

I am the good shepherd and I know my sheep [intimately], and they know me [that way],

John 12:6

Now he did not say this because he cared about poor people, but because he was in charge of the money bag, and being a thief, he used to steal from it.

Acts 18:17

Then, all of them [Note: This “all” could refer to the Greeks, the Jews or the Roman officers. Since the text does not specify, it seems most reasonable to suggest it was the Romans] grabbed Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the court of justice. But Gallio showed no interest in the whole affair.

1 Corinthians 7:32

But I want you to be free from worry. The man who is not married is concerned about the affairs of the Lord [and] how to please the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:33

But the person who is married is [also] concerned about the affairs of the world [and] how to please his wife,

Philippians 2:20

For I do not have anyone else [i.e., as a fellow-worker] who thinks the same way I do, and who will genuinely care for your [spiritual and material] needs.