Good Shepherd Good Shepherd The Good Shepherd (, "poimḗn o kalós") is an image used in the pericope of , in which Jesus Christ is depicted as the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for his sheep. Similar imagery is used in Psalm 23. The Good Shepherd is also discussed in the other gospels, the Epistle to the Hebrews, the First Epistle of Peter and the Book of Revelation. In the Gospel of John, Jesus states "I am the good shepherd" in two verses, and . From (WEB): This passage is one of several sections of John's Gospel which generate division
Psalm 110 first movement of his "Psalmen Davids" for voices and instruments (SVW 22), and for choir as part of his setting of the Becker Psalter (SWV 208). In 1959, Richard Rodgers composed a partial setting of the psalm for the opening sequence of his musical "The Sound of Music", using verses 1, 5, and 7. Psalm 110 Psalm 110 is the 110th psalm of the Book of Psalms, generally known in English by its first verse, in the King James Version, "The said unto my Lord". In the Greek Septuagint version of the bible, and in its Latin translation Vulgate, this