The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.
For I have no one like-minded, who will sincerely care for your state.
This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it.
Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. But Gallio took no notice of these things.
But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.
I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.
But I want you to be without care. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord.
But he who is married cares about the things of the world—how he may please his wife.