The Gatekeeper of the Sheep

John chapter 10 verses 1 to 10 is the gospel for this Sunday. Jesus says anyone who does not enter by the gate but climbs in by some other way is a thief and a robber. The shepherd calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. He goes on ahead of them and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger. In the Middle East it was also different. They weren't farms where you had stacks of hay and grass. To find the grass in such a dry country, you sometimes had to walk for days,. Go down valleys, go to different places that not where the houses were or where the villages were. And we'll