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The Fine Shepherd and “This Fold” of HisThe Watchtower—1984 | February 15
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7. With regard to the Israelite sheepfold, how did Jesus take on a new role in 29 C.E.?
7 What, then, of that sheepfold of the Mosaic Law covenant? After Jesus had been baptized by John the Baptizer, and he had been anointed with Jehovah’s holy spirit and had undergone 40 days of temptation in the wilderness of Judea, Jesus Christ came as a spiritual Shepherd to the Israelite sheepfold in the year 29 C.E. Jesus Christ said that he had specifically been sent to “the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” (Matthew 10:6; 15:24) Up until his baptism he had simply been one of the natural Israelites living within the sheepfold arrangement of the Mosaic Law covenant. But now, having been anointed and begotten by Jehovah’s spirit, Jesus Christ could come to that sheepfold in his new role as “the fine shepherd.”—John 10:11.
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The Fine Shepherd and “This Fold” of HisThe Watchtower—1984 | February 15
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9, 10. How did Jesus fit his own description of a shepherd, and how did Israelite shepherds deal with their sheep?
9 Jesus matched his own description of the True and Fine Shepherd, as stated in these words at John 10:1-5
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The Fine Shepherd and “This Fold” of HisThe Watchtower—1984 | February 15
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But he that enters through the door is shepherd of the sheep.
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The Fine Shepherd and “This Fold” of HisThe Watchtower—1984 | February 15
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12. Who were the “strangers” that Jesus spoke of, and how was that the case?
12 Other Israelites who came and claimed to be the promised Messiah, or Christ, were the ones whom Jesus branded as strangers. They failed to be introduced as Jehovah’s Messianic Shepherd by his appointed “doorkeeper,” who was John, the one to whom Jesus himself came in order to be baptized.
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