He flees because he is a hireling and cares nothing for the sheep.
He who is a hireling and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.
I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me,
This he said, not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box he used to take what was put into it.
And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to this.
I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord;
but the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please his wife,
I have no one like him, who will be genuinely anxious for your welfare.