Hired workers run away because they don't care about the sheep.
Hired workers are not like the shepherd. They don't own the sheep, and when they see a wolf coming, they run off and leave the sheep. Then the wolf attacks and scatters the flock.
I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep, and they know me.
Judas did not really care about the poor. He asked this because he carried the money bag and sometimes would steal from it.
The crowd grabbed Sosthenes, the Jewish leader, and beat him up in front of the court. But none of this mattered to Gallio.
I want all of you to be free from worry. An unmarried man worries about how to please the Lord.
But a married man has more worries. He must worry about the things of this world, because he wants to please his wife.
I don't have anyone else who cares about you as much as he does.