11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.



Ver. 11. I am the good shepherd] So he is by an excellency, for he left his glory to seek out to himself a flock in the wilderness. "He feeds them among the lilies," Son_2:16; gives them golden fleeces, and shepherds to keep them, after his own heart; watcheth over them night and day in his Migdal Eder, or tower of the flock, Gen_35:21; seeks them up when lost, bears them in his bosom, and gently leads those that are with young, Isa_40:11; pulls them out of the power of the lion and the bear, punisheth such as either push with the horn or foul with the feet, Eze_34:19; washeth them in his own blood, and so maketh them kings and priests to God, Rev_1:5, &c., so that they need not fear the spiritual Assyrian, Mic_5:5.